Martha Wells is the author of more than a dozen science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Ile-Rien series (The Death of the Necromancer), the Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red), and the Books of the Raksura (The Cloud Roads). Her work has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, been nominated for the Nebula and Compton Crook awards, and been published in eight languages. Wells lives in College Station, Texas.