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After Atlas (Planetfall 2) Kindle Edition


Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems...

Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when
Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos's entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas's departure, it's got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room-and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation.

To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. There's more to Casales's death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of
Atlas than anyone realizes...

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Gripping and sorrowful, this imaginative story is a satisfying return to Newman's future of greed and hope.

-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

A lovely locked room mystery in which the stakes are incredibly high and the world is so very engaging...Emma Newman creates addictive page turners.

-- "Starburst magazine"

Combines the classic mystery-novel whodunit with a frighteningly possible reality of corporate-owned governments.

-- "Booklist"

A detective novel on acid...Newman's psychological insight is astute.

-- "Washington Post"

About the Author

Emma Newman is an author and a professional audiobook narrator, narrating short stories and novels in all genres. Her novel Between Two Thorns was nominated for the 2014 British Fantasy Award. She also cowrites and hosts the podcast Tea and Jeopardy, which was nominated for a 2014 Hugo Award for Best Fancast.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0763N9NN6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz (28 December 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 959 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 374 pages

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Emma Newman
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Emma Newman writes short stories, novels and novellas in multiple speculative fiction genres. She won the British Fantasy Society Best Short Story Award 2015 for “A Woman’s Place” in the 221 Baker Streets anthology.

'Between Two Thorns', the first book in Emma's Split Worlds urban fantasy series, was shortlisted for the BFS Best Novel and Best Newcomer 2014 awards. Her most recent science-fiction novel, After Atlas, was shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke award.

Emma is an audiobook narrator and also co-writes and hosts the Hugo and Alfie Award winning podcast 'Tea and Jeopardy' which involves tea, cake, mild peril and singing chickens. Her hobbies include dressmaking and playing RPGs.

She blogs at www.enewman.co.uk and can be found as @emapocalyptic on Twitter.

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  • The Captain
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Captain's Log
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2017
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    Ahoy there mateys! This is the companion novel to the wonderful sci-fi novel planetfall which continues to linger in me thoughts as being a super pleasurable previous read. As a companion novel, the books can be read in any order even though personally I am glad I read planetfall first. Planetfall was the story of a human colony on a remote alien planet far far from Earth. After atlas is a sci-fi murder mystery novel set on Earth forty years after Atlas has left the planet.

    The story involves Carlos who works for one of the big corporations on Earth. When he was an infant, his mother left him behind on Earth when she traveled on the Atlas. Forty years later he is a top level detective to the Ministry of Justice. There is just one catch – he was sold to them years before as an indentured slave who has to work off his debt before he is free. But everything has a price and adds to his debt. They control him and he won’t work off his debt until he is at least 80, or maybe longer . . .

    So when his boss at the Ministry arrives in his apartment with a new job assignment with the details off the record, he realizes something is different. There has been another murder, only this time he knows the victim. Can he solve the crime, avoid the politics, and kept his personal feelings under control? There may be no real choice as the clock is ticking, the debt is growing, and all he wants is freedom.

    Again, Emma Newman creates another fascinating main character whose personality and circumstances are a delight. The novel evolves in such a way that ye follow the unfolding investigation while slowly learning the details of Carlos’ life and his past relationships. Again the tech in the novel like the APA’s are richly drawn and central to the story. While Carlos is the main character, through him ye get to known the side characters who are all well drawn out. Some of the murder mystery clues were guessable but how she resolved the story overall was not.

    In any case this was another awesome effort by Ms. Newman and I truly hope there is another story set in this world. Do pick up either one of the Planetfall books and treat yerself to a delightful story.
  • Wiza
    5.0 out of 5 stars Génial
    Reviewed in France on 9 July 2019
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    Lire d’abord Planet Fall
  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very good story
    Reviewed in Germany on 29 October 2021
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    Bur was a little too bleak to read at times.
    The detective story part was well written but the parts about ownership and total contol over others was a little to far fetched for my taste.
    But I'm looking forward to the next story from Emma!
  • Pat Danforth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Early
    Reviewed in Canada on 27 August 2019
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    The books came a day early. Very happy.
  • Andrew Wallace
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of our most original and compelling storytellers
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2017
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    Able to switch from Regency fantasy (the Split Words novels) and Hugo Award-winning genre comedy (the Tea & Jeopardy podcast) to the otherworldly beauty of her first SF novel ‘Planetfall’; Emma Newman now turns detective in a book I didn’t expect, which is a ‘Planetfall’ sequel.
    I could rant on about ‘Planetfall’ for hours; it was my Book of the Year for 2015 and I recommend it to anyone, regardless of whether they like science fiction or not. Nailing a multi-layered, confessional Frederik Pohl meets Sylvia Plath tale of celestial intrigue on a distant colony planet, its transcendent conclusion appeared to preclude any possible follow-up.
    You don’t have to read ‘Planetfall’ to appreciate the very different ‘After Atlas’. However, the first novel casts its eerie light over proceedings in the second, lending them that shivery sense of the uncanny that all good murder/detective fiction has only with even more intensity.
    It’s been forty years since the starship Atlas left Earth with the brightest of humanity and a big chunk of the planet’s most valuable raw materials. Its mission was defined by a woman called the Pathfinder, whose consumption of a strange seed gave her the coordinates of a distant planet that was the supposed location of the City of God. Nothing has been heard from Atlas in the decades since, although a time capsule left by the mission is due to be opened.
    One person who couldn’t be less interested in the contents is hot-housed super-detective Carlos Moreno. Carl’s mother departed on Atlas, leaving her son in the care of a neglectful, broken father whose response was to join an anti-technology cult led by the dauntingly charismatic Alejandro Casales. Carl escaped, but was rounded and sold into white-collar slavery; his skills enabling him to become a police detective. An scary detail is that people Carl meets during the course of his investigation don’t realise he is a slave. Carl’s contract lasts for decades and any deviations will add more years to it, as will expensive purchases like proper food.
    Indeed, the book opens with a scene like a drugs deal, except it’s real meat and vegetables being purchased as an alternative to the icky printed food jetted from mixer nozzles like those cola dispensers in pubs. That Carl never gets to eat the meal which costs him so much is an irony that perfectly expresses his desire for a normal, free life. His fate has the added SF drive of making the reader want to do everything possible to stop the world ending up like it is in the story.
    However, this near-future is uncomfortably familiar. The author presents an evolution of the social media/work software axis with an AI personal assistant called Tia, who also enables seamless expositional delivery. The technology in the novel is a boon to the detective rather than a hindrance, although these advantages seem of little use when faced with a crime seemingly devoid of reason: the grotesque murder of cult leader Alejandro.
    Assigned to the case because he is the best in the service and publicity created by his association with the victim will be useful, Carl is pursued by various furies as he tries to solve the murder. These forces include the journalists he loathes, the senior (non-slave) detectives who hold his fate in their hands and the higher level gov-corp operatives who have not only managed to do away with regulation but nation states as well.
    The story is wreathed in mystery as it explores themes of parenting, good and bad (mainly bad); refreshingly fluid sexuality (the clever, asexual journalist is particularly fascinating) psychological restrictions and the kind of mentality required to bring about genuine historical change, usually in the form of violent death. Linked to the latter is the author’s ability to conjure a genuine sense of the alien, from the weird organic city on the distant world in ‘Planetfall’ to the questionably human psychopaths who run the gov-corps in ‘After Atlas’.
    These influences make the pages of ‘After Atlas’ hum with intrigue. All the questions raised in the first chapter are spun into story layers by turns beguiling, terrifying and tender. The latter is important, and puts Emma Newman among the best of contemporary genre writers, because in a world this harsh love is hard-earned and never sentimental.
    Fortunately, Carl is a great narrator, going from coarse to brilliant in the space of a line. His aching heart informs many of his responses; from the reaction to Alejandro’s body in the mortuary to the re-union with the father, a plausibly stunted encounter despite the emotional avalanche-in-waiting.
    Carl is believably clever, too. The brilliant detective trope is a popular one, but here it’s given a high-tech spin with the ghastly hot-housing technique that has enhanced Carl’s abilities so that when he does end up one step ahead it is entirely convincing.
    Not that it does him or anyone else much good. I’ve known some bleak endings; SF excels at them, but the emotional intensity of ‘After Atlas’ renders this one particularly powerful. If the climax of ‘Planetfall’ is transcendent then the resolution of ‘After Atlas’ is some kind of opposite.
    Perhaps rightly so; it is a very different novel after all and no one could accuse this author of repetition. If any cheer comes out of it, it’s that the stage is set for many more ‘Planetfall’ books, such as the forthcoming ‘Before Mars’.
    With an imagination like Emma Newman’s, the trip will be unlike any other.

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