Martha Wells is a science fiction and fantasy author. She spoke with us about her books (including Murderbot Diaries!), writing, and creating fantastical worlds.

Marth (@marthawells1) has won Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards for her work. We mostly talked about the Murderbot Diaries and the Books of the Raksura. Oh, and the Star Wars tie-in about Leia, Razor's Edge. And The Witch King is coming out next year, a brand new world. Heck, just look at her full catalog. Martha also has a blog and a website.

As often happens when book dragons get together, we talked about our hoards. Some books and authors that came up:

Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
Ian Halle
Ancillary Justice trilogy by Ann Leckie
Phyllis Gotlieb (Wikipedia)
Andre Norton (Wikipedia)
Zenna Henderson (Wikipedia)
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (we didn’t like the new covers as much as the old but the books are great either way)

Tor.com is a fantastic site with lots of free fiction. Murderbot started there and has a few short stories that are otherwise hard to find.

There is a rare and sold out Subterranean Press edition of the Murderbot Diaries with illustrations from Tommy Arnold. See some of the illustrations.

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Don’t look back in Erfurt (mit Nikki Hassan-Nia feat Thorsten Faas)