Due to the volume of books Martha will have to sign we cannot guarantee long quotes or passages. Please limit personalizations to names.If you would like your copy personalized, please include inscription information in the order comments.Our signing policies can be found here.If you can't make the event and would like your copy personalized / inscribed, please include personalization information in the order comments.Seating and parking are first come, first served.A copy of Witch King must be purchased from MBTB in order to obtain a line number and get anything signed.

Line Numbers for the event will be available starting that day, but you can preorder now and we'll pull a number for you on May 30th. Her New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards. Fans will not be disappointed by Wells’s return to fantasy.Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction. Laudably, however, Wells treats sexuality and gender (demons can move between male and female bodies) with a refreshing matter-of-factness and depicts the cultures of this world with an anthropologist’s care. The enormous cast is difficult to keep track of and the dry, workmanlike prose that works so well when Wells is writing robots can make it difficult to feel particularly close to any of these living characters. Among those helping him are Ziede Daiyahah, a witch searching for her missing wife Sanja, a street urchin and Ramad, a vanguarder and historian. The present begins with Kai abruptly waking to find his consciousness separated from his body-which is now a corpse entombed in a watery prison-and setting out to investigate his own murder.

The past story line follows Kai’s first possession of a human body and his relationship with Prince Bashasa, who orchestrates a coup against the autocratic Hierarchs to avenge his sister’s death. Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winner Wells takes a break from her sci-fi Murderbot series to delve into a complex secondary world fantasy exploring the past and present of Kaiisteron the Witch King, a demon in human form.

Witch king martha wells