After Atlas

Emma Newman’s Planetfall is a devastating novel, set among a colony of pilgrims who left Earth to find God on another planet. Set 20 years after the Atlas mission landed, it details the idyllic lives of the missionaries, who while away their days at the edge of an incomprehensible alien structure. They live post-scarcity lives, with every physical need provided for by 3D […]

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 […]