The Edge of Worlds
- Published
- 5 April 2016
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN-13
- 9781597808439
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in April 2016, The Edge of Worlds is the fourth installment of The Books of the Raksura, running 388 pages as Moon's court is drawn into wider threats facing the Three Worlds their people inhabit.
Key facts about The Edge of Worlds
Martha Wells wrote The Edge of Worlds, a novel on our list. It has been out since 5 April 2016. The book has 388 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781597808439 to find the main one.
The Edge of Worlds is book 4 of 5 in The Books of the Raksura series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with The Cloud Roads (2011). The Harbors of the Sun is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 18 July 2017.
Additionally, Martha Wells writes The Books of Ile-Rien, 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 the Raksura
The Edge of Worlds is book 4 in the The Books of the Raksura series. It follows The Siren Depths. It is followed by The Harbors of the Sun. See the full The Books of the Raksura reading order.
Moon has spent his entire life hiding what he is, drifting between short-lived communities of other species because revealing his shapeshifting, dragon-like true form has always meant being driven out or killed. The Cloud Roads (2011) begins when he's finally found by others of his own kind, the Raksura -- a matriarchal, caste-structured flying people he never knew existed -- and has to decide whether he can belong to a society built on rules he's never learned. Martha Wells builds an unusually detailed non-human…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597808439