The Wizard Hunters
core novel 2003 Ile-Rien
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.97 (3,722 ratings, collected 2026-09-07) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780380977888 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The Wizard Hunters opens The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy in an early twentieth-century version of the kingdom, now facing devastating invasion by the Gardier, an enemy whose storm-black airships and unknown weapons render Ile-Rien's traditional sorcery useless. Tremaine Valiarde, a young playwright without any magical ability of her own, becomes an unlikely focus of hope when she inherits a mysterious sphere left behind by her late sorcerer uncle Arisilde. Attempting to unlock its secrets, Tremaine is unexpectedly transported through the sphere to an unfamiliar world whose magic cultures lag far behind Ile-Rien's sophisticated Craft, populated by warriors, wary wizards, and worse dangers. Stranded among strangers who have no reason to trust her, she must find a way to understand the sphere's power before an ancient evil in this new world fully awakens and before the Gardier complete their conquest of her own.
Where it sits
- Universe: Ile-Rien
- Series: The Fall of Ile-Rien core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Martha Wells
Notes
- From the series record (The Fall of Ile-Rien): Completed trilogy following Tremaine Valiarde as an invading army, the Gardier, besieges Ile-Rien; set chronologically after both standalone novels.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Fall of Ile-Rien: position 1 of 3: next The Ships of Air (2004)
- Internal chronology, within Ile-Rien: position 3 of 5: previous The Death of the Necromancer (1998) · next The Ships of Air (2004)
Sources
- Ile-Rien (English Wikipedia)
- Martha Wells: the Ile-Rien Books (author's own site)
- https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/martha-wells/wizard-hunters.htm
- Wikipedia (Swedish; Martha Wells bibliography)
- Martha Wells (official bibliography)
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