Agent: Jennifer Udden, Barry Goldblatt Literary. This winning combination of intriguing mystery and inventive SF richly rewards Newman’s longtime readers and will lure others to the series. Tense moments mount as she learns more about her incognito ally and the ship’s leadership, leading to a chilling, ethically complex ending. Emma Newman is a British science fiction and fantasy writer, podcaster and audiobook narrator. Despite her fear of being caught, Dee agrees to aid the guide’s scheme. Carl, a former detective, investigates the man’s death, but the mysterious guide uses impressive data hacking skills to stymie him and protect Dee, while inviting Dee to take revenge on the game’s designers for setting her up to be a killer. After her first foray, she is disturbed that a man she killed in the game died in the real world. She is also invited to elite games where players rely on their real-world physical abilities in virtual space, and encounters a cagey virtual guide. Six months into their 20-year journey to a new world, an unexpected offer of a job analyzing entertainment usage allows her access to the ship’s computer systems, which lets her seek answers.

The only people who observed the detonation are Dee her best friend, Carl and Carl’s “sort-of lover,” Travis. Emotionally cold Dee seethes, wondering who aboard the spaceship Atlas 2 ordered the secret nuclear launch that ravaged Earth. There's more to Casales's death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes.Newman builds on the best elements of her interconnected Planetfall series for this superb fourth volume (after Before Mars), which centers on a covert investigation into nuclear genocide. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. Thankfully, After Atlas is written such that it can be understood and enjoyed without having read Planetfall. I have not yet read Planetfall, but most definitely will at some point. This is the second novel set in this universe, the first being Planetfall. 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. Recently, I finished a great science fiction novel by Emma Newman called After Atlas.

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.

But in that moment, the course of Carlos's entire life changed.

Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. 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.

After Atlas by Emma Newman