Wheel of the Infinite Audiobook By Martha Wells cover art

Wheel of the Infinite

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Wheel of the Infinite

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $18.05

Buy for $18.05

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

Every year in the great Temple City of Duvalpore, the image of the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure another year of peace and harmony for the Celestial Empire. Every hundred years the sacred rite takes on added significance. For it is then that the very fabric of the world must be rewoven. Linked by the mystic energies of the Infinite, the Wheel and world are one. Should the holy image be marred, the world will suffer a similar injury. But a black storm is spreading across the Wheel. Every night the Voices of the Ancestors - the Wheel's constructors and caretakers - brush the darkness away and repair the damage with brightly colored sands and potent magic. Each morning the storm reappears, bigger and darker than before, unraveling the beautiful and orderly patterns. With chaos in the wind, a woman with a shadowy past has returned to Duvalpore.

A murderer and traitor - an exile disgraced, hated, and feared, and haunted by her own guilty conscience - Maskelle has been summoned back to help put the world right. Once she was the most revered of the Voices, until cursed by her own actions. Now, in the company of Rian - a skilled and dangerously alluring swordsman - she must confront dread enemies old and new and a cold, stalking malevolence unlike any she has ever encountered.

©2000 Martha Wells (P)2013 Tantor Classics Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction

Critic reviews

"Superior fantasy work from one of the best in the field." (Kirkus Starred Review)
Engaging Fantasy • Rich Worldbuilding • Pleasant Voice • Well-developed Protagonist • Original Storyline • Gripping Plot
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
The story is great and very involving. The narration took a little getting used to, and at times the story seemed to stall a bit and then recover the thread.

Very vivid world building

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This story breaks some of the norms of fantasy. It adopts some tropes from private detective noir. It’s a fun listen, moved quickly. Readers who know Martha Wells murder bot stories might miss the sci fi setting but they will recognize the story teller.

A lot of fun

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

What did you love best about Wheel of the Infinite?

The world was creative and the characters distinctive

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

I don't usually pay much attention to the narration when it works. This narrator had the accent of the American south. Completely at odds with an exotic location. In addition, she mispronounced words. I cringed a lot listening to her.

Any additional comments?

Martha Wells creates interesting worlds and characters. She needs a different narrator for this one.

Good Story, poor narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed the story, it was an original fantasy mystery. Hard to follow at times. Might make a good movie

Enjoyed the story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story isn't bad at all. It takes a while to get rolling but is enjoyable. I personally couldn't get past the narrator. Her speech pattern is too distracting to me. Let me try that in her words.....Her Speech....Pattern....Is Too................Distracting.....To Me.

It's like if Christopher Walken and Captain Kirk had a love child.

it's not bad...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I loved the story and narrator. I noticed some criticism of the narrator, which is nonsense. She does speak more slowly and deliberately than my preference but sped up to 1.10 fixed that without distortion. I highly recommend the book.

wonderful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The plotting is slow to get going. The world is wonderful and a fascinating and the primary character is very well developed. Secondary character development is so-so. The reader is very good.

Intricate world building, great reader!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed the book— enough that I think I’m going to get the text version— but the narration was just awful. Pitts’s reading was full of awkward pauses, inappropriate uptalk, and misplaced emphasis that actually obscured the meaning of the sentences. I found myself having to mentally “transcribe” back into text to make sense of some passages. And she gave a couple of important characters comical voices, which was entirely out of keeping with the tone of the story and the characters’ role in it.

I’d love to see this one re-recorded by Robin Miles, who’s read some of Jemisin’s work. Till then, I recommend you buy the text and get a friend to read it to you.

Good book, awful narration.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love Martha Wells' world building. She peoples her lands with complex societies and reveals the details about those societies through the experience of individuals, so that there is always more showing than telling. She's not afraid to pair up unlikely romantic partners, explore all kinds of alternative role assignments, and allow for tenderness and toughness to coexist within any character of any gender.
This is a good story, thoroughly engaging, well told by a great narrator.

Strong Characters, Great Narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
great read and listen. was surprised several times and it was intriguing in the handling of cultural beliefs

imagination

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews