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Emma Newman

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Born

in The United Kingdom

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

The roots are down there

Hello my lovelies,

How the devil are you? It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

As I am typing this, the neighbours across the way from me are having the huge Leylandii trees in their back garden trimmed by a small team of tree surgeons who are having the most appalling argument about holding the ladder steady (or not, by the sound of it). Between the roar of the chainsaws and the men yelling at each other

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Emma Newman’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 35,162 ratings · 5,482 reviews · 100 distinct works • Similar authors

	Planetfall (Planetfall, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 12,977 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 — 4,466 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 — 3,615 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 — 2,463 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 — 2,552 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 — 1,542 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 — 1,210 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) 3.62 avg rating — 1,129 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 — 707 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 3.55 avg rating — 775 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.”
― Emma Newman, Planetfall

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Hyperion Cantos, 4 books by Dan Simmons, starting with Hyperion

13 votes, 37.1%

Otherland, 4 books by Tad Williams, starting with City of Golden Shadow

7 votes, 20.0%

Planetfall, 4 books by Emma Newman, starting with Planetfall

6 votes, 17.1%

Luna, 3 books by Ian McDonald, starting with New Moon

3 votes, 8.6%

Gaea, 3 books by John Varley, starting with Titan

2 votes, 5.7%

Ware, 4 books by Rudy Rucker, starting with Software

2 votes, 5.7%

Highroad, 3 books by Kate Elliott, starting with A Passage of Stars

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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