The Ships of Air
- Published
- 1 July 2004
- Pages
- 408
- ISBN-13
- 9780061129445
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ships of Air is the fourth book in the Books of Ile-Rien, published in July 2004 at 408 pages. It continues the Fall of Ile-Rien sequence begun in The Wizard Hunters and is followed by the trilogy's close, The Gate of Gods.
Key facts about The Ships of Air
The Ships of Air is a novel by Martha Wells. Readers have had it since 1 July 2004. It runs to 408 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Ships of Air. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780061129445 to find the main one.
The Ships of Air is book 4 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). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
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 Ships of Air is book 4 in the The Books of Ile-Rien series. It follows The Wizard Hunters. It is followed by The Gate of Gods. 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 9780061129445