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.
Key facts about The Death of the Necromancer
The Death of the Necromancer is a novel by Martha Wells. Readers have had it since 1998. It runs to 359 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Death of the Necromancer. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781452666327 to find the main one.
The Death of the Necromancer is book 2 of 5 in The Books of Ile-Rien series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with The Element of Fire (1993). The Ships of Air is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 July 2004.
Additionally, Martha Wells writes The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries and The Rising World as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Platform Decay is the latest published Martha Wells book on file, from 5 May 2026.
About Martha Wells
Martha Wells is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose Murderbot Diaries has become one of the genre's most acclaimed recent series, following a self-hacked security android -- who privately calls itself Murderbot -- as it tries to watch its favorite soap operas in peace while reluctantly getting drawn into protecting the humans it's contracted to guard. See every Martha Wells book in order.
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