The Books of Ile-Rien · Book 4
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.
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