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A review by librarian_of_trantor
Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
3.0
Disappointing compared to the other books in series. Too much of the action takes place in VR games for my tastes.
SERIOUS SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!!!
It will be interesting to see where Newman takes the story from here. We have an interstellar colony in crisis, built around an enigmatic artifact that appears to be drawing intelligent life there to transcend to some higher plane of existence. Earth suffered a nuclear war that may be the end of human life there. Another ship is on its way to the colony, a ship launched by genocidal religious fanatics who started said war so no one would follow them. But those on the ship who gave the order were killed for that crime, presumably creating serious leadership issues for the rest of the journey and its arrival at the colony. And the AI who runs the ship has become sentient and seems to have some serious mental health issues like all the main human protagonists. The fact that a handful of survivors from the doomed Martian colony are also on their way to the interstellar colony seems like a sidebar. But I could see Newman turning that into an interesting plot twist.
SERIOUS SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!!!
It will be interesting to see where Newman takes the story from here. We have an interstellar colony in crisis, built around an enigmatic artifact that appears to be drawing intelligent life there to transcend to some higher plane of existence. Earth suffered a nuclear war that may be the end of human life there. Another ship is on its way to the colony, a ship launched by genocidal religious fanatics who started said war so no one would follow them. But those on the ship who gave the order were killed for that crime, presumably creating serious leadership issues for the rest of the journey and its arrival at the colony. And the AI who runs the ship has become sentient and seems to have some serious mental health issues like all the main human protagonists. The fact that a handful of survivors from the doomed Martian colony are also on their way to the interstellar colony seems like a sidebar. But I could see Newman turning that into an interesting plot twist.