When she discovered that the man is a member of an elite society also responsible for the destruction of earth, she realizes that she is on the path to discover the truth. The game she finds herself in is different than any "mersive" she's played before, and she is shocked to learn that a man she killed inside the game has also died in the real world. In the game world, she encounters a mysterious guide, who hints that they are there to help her. An unexpected job offer by a designer who asks her help test his new game gives her access to the ship's computer, leading to her also being invited to play elite games. Other than Dee, the only people who saw the detonation are her best friend, Carl and Carl’s “sort-of lover,” Travis.ĭee tries to escape her trauma through an immersive game.
She knows they are aboard-ship, but the way that Atlas 2 is set up, there is no way to contact anyone outside of one's immediate surroundings, nor even know who they are.
Six months after leaving Earth, Dee is seething with rage towards the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed Earth. The novel was a finalist for the 2019 BSFA Award for Best Novel. After Atlas follows Dee, who finds herself immersed in an investigation to discover who ordered the nuclear genocide that destroyed Earth. An audio edition of the book was published in April 2019 in the United States by Tantor Audio, and in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing.Ītlas Alone is the fourth book in Newman's four-book Planetfall series, and takes place on the spaceship Atlas 2, six months after the events on Earth in the previous book, Before Mars. It was first published in the United States as a paperback original in April 2019 by Ace Books, and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz.
Atlas Alone is a 2019 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman.
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