Publishing

Atlas Alone available for pre-order!

I’m delighted to say that the fourth novel set in the Planetfall universe, Atlas Alone, is now available for pre-order. I’ve gathered up the links below, and there will be an audiobook (that I am narrating) but there doesn’t seem to be a pre-order option available for that yet. I’ve put the blurb at the bottom of this page as it is a tad spoilery for a couple of the other Planetfall novels and I get twitchy about that sort of thing.

The US edition (published by Ace) will be released on April 16th 2019 and the UK edition (published by Gollancz) will be released on April 18th 2019.

There are plans for a London event around the time of the launch and when the details are finalised I’ll let you know. In fact, the best way for you to be kept up to date on that and all the other things I’m getting up to is my newsletter that I am revamping to incorporate a short story club. You can find out more and sign up for the newsletter here.

Here’s where you can pre-order Atlas Alone

Pre-ordering is the best thing you can do to support an author, as it indicates to both the publishers and the booksellers that there is a demand for our work, which helps it to sell more in the first critical week on sale, and makes it more likely they will publish more books by us in the future. So if you pre-order Atlas Alone, you are officially a bless poppet.

Pre-order the US edition

Barnes and Noble, paperback
Nook ebook
US Paperback, Amazon
US Kindle Edition

Pre-order the UK edition

UK Paperback edition at Books on the Hill (Independent bookshop)
UK Paperback edition on Wordery
Amazon Kindle UK
Amazon UK Paperback
UK Paperback, Book Depository
UK Paperback, Waterstones

Here is the blurb for Atlas Alone – though please note this contains spoilers for After Atlas and Before Mars. Even though the four novels are genuine stand-alones, I do recommend that you have read After Atlas before this one, as it does follow on six months after the end of that novel with several of the characters featured in it. You could read Atlas Alone first, but I think you’ll enjoy it more if you have read After Atlas beforehand.

Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance and the lengths to which one will go to save the future of humanity.

Six months after she left, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed Earth. She’s trying to find those responsible, but she’s not getting very far alone.

A dedicated gamer, Dee is endeavoring to discover a mersive good enough to enable her to escape her trauma. When she is approached by a designer who asks her to play test his new game, she hopes it will be what she needs—but it isn’t like any mersive she’s played before. When a man suddenly dies in the real world, she realizes that at the same time in the game, she killed a character who bears a striking resemblance to the dead man—a man she discovers was one of those responsible for the death of millions on Earth.

Disturbed, but thinking it must be a coincidence, Dee continues the hunt for information. But when she finds out the plans for the future colony, she realizes that to save what is left of humanity, she might have to do something that risks what remains of her own.