Series
Planetfall (Emma Newman)
Emma Newman · 4 novels · 10 short stories · 1 collection · 2015–2023
Emma Newman's Planetfall series opens with a colony ship's arrival on an alien world in the shadow of a mysterious alien structure that drew them there, and the secrets its leadership has kept from the rest of the colonists ever since landing. Each of the four books shifts to a different point-of-view character connected to the colony, using personal trauma and unreliable narration as much as the science-fictional setting to drive the story. It's colonization SF more interested in psychological fallout than the mechanics of settling a new world.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Stats
By decade
- 2010s4
- 2020s11
Shape
4 novels · 10 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 15 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- After Atlasdarkest · most intense
- Before, After, Alonebrightest · calmest