Before Mars

Anna Kubrick wakes up on Mars after a six month solo flight from Earth. She’s been sent by Stefan Gabor, the head of a powerful gov-corp, to his small settlement on there, ostensibly to act as a sort of artist-in-residence. Anna is a mid-level corporate geologist who dabbles in painting, and her pragmatically romantic renderings […]

Reviewing a novel four books deep into a series is always a little tricky, even if—as with Emma Newman’s Planetfall series—the novels are less a continuing storyline and more a sequence of standalone narratives in a shared world. That all changes with this fourth installment, which takes place in the wake of the events of Before […]