350 pages
French language
Published Dec. 15, 2018
After Atlas is a 2016 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman. It was first published in the United States as a paperback original in November 2016 by Roc Books, and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in paperback in February 2018. An audio edition of the book, narrated by Andrew Kingston, was published in the United States by Blackstone Audio in November 2016, and in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing in December 2017. After Atlas is the second book in Newman's four-book Planetfall series, and takes place on Earth forty years after the spaceship Atlas departed to find God in the first book, Planetfall. The novel was generally well received by critics, and was a finalist for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and placed eighth in the 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Publishers Weekly selected After Atlas as one of its best science …
After Atlas is a 2016 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman. It was first published in the United States as a paperback original in November 2016 by Roc Books, and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in paperback in February 2018. An audio edition of the book, narrated by Andrew Kingston, was published in the United States by Blackstone Audio in November 2016, and in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing in December 2017. After Atlas is the second book in Newman's four-book Planetfall series, and takes place on Earth forty years after the spaceship Atlas departed to find God in the first book, Planetfall. The novel was generally well received by critics, and was a finalist for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and placed eighth in the 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Publishers Weekly selected After Atlas as one of its best science fiction/fantasy/horror books of 2016.
This was headed for a 3 star rating from me because most of it was a murder investigation. A well done one, but that’s not my thing. Then the ending took quite the turn, and I’ll definitely keep reading the series!
Absolutely fabulous. One of my favorite reads of the year.
The book explores so many things - what happens when people can "consent" to be, effectively, slaves? How can one escape such a sentence? What would life look like with constant access to a personal AI? What if everything is 3D printed? What would the backlash against it look like? If the world is taken over by corporations? What do the rich act like in a world with this much technology?
On top of all of that, there's a fantastic detective story.
A glorious futuristic mystery that ties with Planetfall in unexpected ways. Just when you feel safe with where the plot is going, there's a sudden shift that turns everything on its head.
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Fascinating crime story that goes so much further.
