Emma Newman. Roc, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-28239-7
This heartbreaking adventure is a tragedy of science and faith. Renata “Ren” Ghali followed her lover, Lee Suh-Mi, on a voyage to the stars with 1,000 other colonists. They found a new world, but Suh-Mi went into the alien structure known as God’s...
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Emma Newman. Roc, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-28240-3
In this richly written companion novel to Planetfall, Newman returns to the Earth that the interstellar explorers in the first book left behind. Carlos Moreno’s mother was selected to leave Earth on the legendary star cruiser Atlas. Carlos was not...
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Emma Newman. Tor.com, $2.99 e-book (160p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9395-1
Newman (After Atlas) takes a romp through the underbelly of a magical Victorian England in this flawed alternate history novella. Charlotte Gunn, an adept illustrator who wields an impressive type of magic, has grown up in a debt-ridden family. She...
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Emma Newman. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9411-8
Newman returns to her Industrial Magic series (Brother’s Ruin), set in an alternate Earth’s industrial revolution–era Britain, with this entertaining novella. Charlotte is a young woman who simply wants to marry a solid man and keep herself and her...
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Emma Newman. Ace, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-58732-0
Strange events prompt a geologist on a Mars base to question her mission in Newman’s suspenseful companion novel to Planetfall and After Atlas. In a future defined by corporate greed and hubris, Dr. Anna Kubrin is sent to Mars by the head of the...
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Emma Newman. Ace, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-58734-4
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. Emotionally cold Dee seethes, wondering who aboard the...
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Emma Newman. Solaris, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-83786-164-4
Newman (the Industrial Magic series) launches a new series with this suspenseful but somewhat anticlimactic fantasy. Pirate captain Anne-Marie and her daughter, Morgane, attempt to seize the ship Coup de Maître—unaware that they’re sailing into a...
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