Carlos is unhappy that the case is closed and is determined to find out why Alejandro killed himself. The Americans, who had been watching the investigation closely, hid the truth about the leader. He was trained as a murder investigator and contracted to the MoJ.Ĭarlos discovers that Alejandro was not murdered, but committed suicide. Carlos fled the cult as a teenager, and destitute, he became a corporate government indentured slave. His mother had abandoned Carlos and his father when he was a baby to join the Pathfinder on Atlas, and Alejandro had taken them in. Carlos knew Alejandro as a child when he had been a member of the Circle.
Carlos Moreno works for the Ministry of Justice in northern Europe and is investigating the death in Dartmoor, England of Alejandro Casales, leader of the Circle, a religious cult in Texas. No word of the fate of the mission has been received. Plot summary Īfter Atlas takes place on Earth forty years after the departure of the spaceship Atlas to find God. Publishers Weekly selected After Atlas as one of its best science fiction/fantasy/horror books of 2016. Clarke Award, and placed eighth in the 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was generally well received by critics, and was a finalist for the 2017 Arthur C.
An audio edition of the book, narrated by Andrew Kingston, was published in the United States by Blackstone Audio in November 2016, and in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing in December 2017.Īfter Atlas is the second book in Newman's four-book Planetfall series, and takes place on Earth forty years after the spaceship Atlas departed to find God in the first book, Planetfall. It was first published in the United States as a paperback original in November 2016 by Roc Books, and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in paperback in February 2018.
After Atlas is a 2016 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman.
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