The Element of Fire was first published in the US by Tor Books in 1993, and has been published in six languages. It was a finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award and a runner-up for the 1994 Crawford Award. This new edition has b "The Element of Fire is a powerful fantasy." -- Locus Magazine, 1993 Martha Wells is the author of seven fantasy novels, including Wheel of the Infinite , City of Bones , and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer . Her most recent novels are a fantasy trilogy: The Wizard Hunters , The Ships of Air , and The Gate of Gods , all currently out in paperback from HarperCollins Eos. She has had short stories in the magazines Realms of Fantasy , Black Gate , Lone Star Stories , and Stargate Magazine , and in the Tsunami Relief anthology Elemental . She also has essays in the nonfiction anthologies Farscape Forever and Mapping the World of Harry Potter from BenBella Books. She has also written two media-tie-in novels, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary and Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement . Used Book in Good Condition