Series
The Raksura
Martha Wells · 5 novels · 4 novellas · 6 short stories · 4 collections · 2011–2017
Martha Wells' Books of the Raksura is her longest-running fantasy series, comprising five novels and two story collections published between 2011 and 2017 by Night Shade Books, and a finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series. It follows characters across the world introduced in The Cloud Roads, continuing through The Serpent Sea, The Siren Depths, The Edge of Worlds, and The Harbors of the Sun.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order events happen in the world.
✦ Curated by the Loreful team
The four Raksura novellas are threaded in among the five novels at their true point in the timeline: two are set before Moon ever reaches Indigo Cloud, and two occur between The Siren Depths and The Edge of Worlds; the rest of the sequence runs as published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Raksura at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s19
Shape
5 novels · 4 novellas · 6 short stories · 4 collections
1 author
reads like:fantasyfound familysecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 86% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book14 of 19 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Dead Citydarkest · most intense
- The Cloud Roadsbrightest
- Appendicescalmest