The Books of Ile-Rien · Book 3

The Wizard Hunters

Published
1 May 2003
Pages
464
ISBN-13
9780380807987
Type
novel
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About this book

The Wizard Hunters is the third book in Martha Wells's Books of Ile-Rien and the opening volume of its direct three-book Fall of Ile-Rien sequence, published in May 2003 at 464 pages. It follows The Death of the Necromancer and precedes The Ships of Air.

Key facts about The Wizard Hunters

Martha Wells wrote The Wizard Hunters, a novel on our list. It has been out since May 2003. The book has 464 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780380807987 to find the main one.

The Wizard Hunters is book 3 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 Wizard Hunters is book 3 in the The Books of Ile-Rien series. It follows The Death of the Necromancer. It is followed by The Ships of Air. 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…

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