The Books of Ile-Rien · Book 1
The Element of Fire
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 324
- ISBN-13
- 9780615135717
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Element of Fire is the opening book in Martha Wells's Books of Ile-Rien, published in 1993 at 324 pages. It's followed by The Death of the Necromancer, a novel this catalogue's curator note describes as set a generation later and only loosely connected to it.
Its place in The Books of Ile-Rien
The Element of Fire is book 1 in the The Books of Ile-Rien series. It is followed by The Death of the Necromancer. 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 9780615135717