The Books of Ile-Rien · Book 2
The Death of the Necromancer
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 359
- ISBN-13
- 9781452666327
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Death of the Necromancer is the second book in the Books of Ile-Rien, published in 1998 at 359 pages. Per this catalogue's curator note it's set a generation after The Element of Fire and only loosely connected to it, while the three books that follow it — The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, and The Gate of Gods — form a direct sequence set later still in the same world.
Its place in The Books of Ile-Rien
The Death of the Necromancer is book 2 in the The Books of Ile-Rien series. It follows The Element of Fire. It is followed by The Wizard Hunters. See the full The Books of Ile-Rien reading order.
Ile-Rien is Martha Wells's recurring secondary-world setting, a magic-using nation with a distinctly Gaslamp, Belle Epoque flavor rather than standard medieval fantasy trappings. The Element of Fire (1993), her debut novel, follows a court sorceress and a captain of the Queen's Guard defending Ile-Rien from both a fae incursion and courtly conspiracy. The Death of the Necromancer (1998), set a generation later, follows a gentleman-thief protagonist whose revenge scheme against the man who ruined his family…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781452666327