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Emma Newman

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Website

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Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Short Stories

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September 2010

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Emma Newman writes short stories, novels and novellas in multiple speculative fiction genres. She is also a Hugo Award-winning podcaster and an audiobook narrator.

She won the British Fantasy Society Best Short Story Award 2015 for “A Woman’s Place” in the 221 Baker Streets anthology. 'Between Two Thorns', the first book in Emma's Split Worlds urban fantasy series, was shortlisted for the BFS Best Novel and Best Newcomer 2014 awards. Her science-fiction novel, After Atlas, was shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke award and the third novel in the Planetfall series, Before Mars, has been shortlisted for a BSFA Best Novel award. The Planetfall series was shortlisted for the 2020 Best Series Hugo Award.

Emma currently creates a podcast calle ...more

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Emma Newman's Blog

Recovery is tiring.

Just a little update from me as I realised it’s been months since I sent out a newsletter. I’ve never been the best at keeping up with this sort of thing, but there’s a reason why I’ve not been around much, and I’m afraid it’s not a nice one.

I am currently recovering from surgery to remove a very teeny tiny bit of breast cancer. The surgery went well, no cancer was found in the lymph nodes and so

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Emma Newman’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 34,595 ratings · 5,402 reviews · 97 distinct works • Similar authors

	Planetfall (Planetfall, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 12,799 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Atlas (Planetfall, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 4,373 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before Mars (Planetfall, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 3,559 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4) 4.09 avg rating — 2,416 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Two Thorns (The Split Worlds, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 2,531 ratings — published 2013 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Any Other Name (The Split Worlds, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 1,533 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Is Fair (The Split Worlds, #3) 3.94 avg rating — 1,207 ratings — published 2013 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brother’s Ruin (Industrial Magic, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 1,120 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Knowledge (The Split Worlds, #4) 4.07 avg rating — 703 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	20 Years Later 3.56 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I think “majority” is one of my least favorite words. It’s so often used to justify bad decisions.”
― Emma Newman, Planetfall

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“Am I just a mosaic of myself, held in the shape of a whole person?”
― Emma Newman, Planetfall

tags: being, completeness, glued-together, mosaic, myself, person, pieces-of-a-whole

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“That scared me more than anything, sometimes; the noise of my thoughts, the sense that even the space inside myself wasn't safe.”
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December Science Fiction -- The following poll decides which book will be our Science Fiction Book-of-the-month for December 2018.

Planetfall by Emma Newman

45 votes, 51.1%

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

43 votes, 48.9%

88 total votes

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message 5: by Emma

Mar 03, 2016 08:38AM

If you have any questions about the Split Worlds series, Planetfall or Tea and Jeopardy, you can ask me over at the Sword and Laser AMA: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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message 4: by Emma

May 27, 2014 06:09AM

For those of you who buy your Kindle ebooks through the Amazon US store, the first two novels of my Split Worlds series (Between Two Thorns and Any Other Name) are on today's Kindle Daily Deal for just $1.99 each: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=amb_link_...

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message 3: by Emma

Dec 06, 2011 11:59AM

I delighted to announce that the hardback edition of 20 Years Later has officially been released! I get all excited about it over here: http://www.enewman.co.uk/twenty-years...

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message 2: by Simon

Jun 07, 2011 05:26PM