What it does have, is some of the most well-realised characters in SF.

There’s no space battles, very few explosions and no interstellar empires. there’s certainly enough dangling plot threads for them) falls some way outside my usual reading. Įmma Newman’s Planetfall quartet (though I strongly suspect there are more books to come. But on the ship carrying the last survivors of humanity, not all grudges died with the past. 'The murder investigation will intrigue readers, while the overall feeling of something more sinister happening keeps the pages turning until the unexpected conclusion.Earth is gone, destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse. 'Emma Newman creates addictive page-turners.'- Starburst

'A thrilling tale of murder, mystery, and madness.will keep you riveted until the very last page.'-Kameron Hurly, author of The Stars Are Legion 'Gripping and sorrowful, this imaginative story is a satisfying return to Newman's future of greed and hope.'- Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'Exceptionally engaging.a vivid, riveting read.'- The Washington Post 'Cathartic and transcendent.'- The New York Times ' Atlas Alone is a deeply, deeply unsettling horror novel, one that juxtaposes the personal trauma of one woman and a world-wide catastrophe and what happens when the two combine to tell a story of post-traumatic stress disorder and vengeance.'- Kirkus 'Emma Newman is one of the very best modern science fiction writers pushing the boundaries of the genre.'-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Clarke Award winning author of Children of Time winning combination of intriguing mystery and inventive SF.'- Publishers Weekly (Starred review) 'Newman builds on the best elements of her interconnected Planetfall series. But when she finds out the plans for the future colony, she realizes that to save what is left of humanity, she might have to do something that risks what remains of her own.

When a man suddenly dies in the real world, she realizes that at the same time in the game, she killed a character who bears a striking resemblance to the dead man-a man she discovers was one of those responsible for the death of millions on Earth.ĭisturbed, but thinking it must be a coincidence, Dee continues the hunt for information. When she is approached by a designer who asks her to play test his new game, she hopes it will be what she needs-but it isn't like any mersive she's played before. She's trying to find those responsible, but she's not getting very far alone.Ī dedicated gamer, Dee is endeavoring to discover a mersive good enough to enable her to escape her trauma. Six months after she left, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed Earth. Description Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance and the lengths to which one will go to save the future of humanity.

After Atlas by Emma Newman