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Planetfall Paperback – November 3, 2015

by Emma Newman (Author)

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From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown.

More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret.

Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi.

The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart…

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Product Details

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Roc (November 3, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425282392
ISBN-13: 978-0425282397
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful

A sci-fi tragedy, filled with love, faith, secrets, and the frailty of humanity.

By Eric Christensen on November 3, 2015

Format: Paperback

PLANETFALL by Emma Newman (author of the Split World series and host and co-writer of the Tea and Jeopardy podcast) is a sci-fi tragedy, filled with love, faith, secrets, and the frailty of humanity. Newman combines wonderfully detailed world building with full-realized, conflict-ridden characters that makes for a stellar read.

PLANETFALL is the story of Renata Ghali, part of a crew who travelled across the cosmos in search of a planet that was promised to reveal mysteries about God and humanity’s place in the universe. The mission did not end quite like expected, but, seated at the foot of God’s city, the colony has not only managed to survive but prosper–in a large part do to Ren’s ability to keep the 3D printers running over the decades since landing. One day, alarms go off when the sensors detect a man approaching the colony from the wilderness. Even more interesting, this man, Sung-Soo, must have been born after planetfall, and he looks a lot like Suh-Mi, the Pathfinder who led the colonists into God’s city, and Ren’s former lover. Shortly after planetfall, Suh-Mi entered God’s city, but never left. Ever since, Ren and Mack, called the Ringleader for his ability to cajole, persuade, and lead, have been keeping some powerful secrets. Secrets that are about to be exposed.

I quite enjoyed Newman’s world building. From the 3D printed everything to the implanted devices that allowed for communication, health notifications, replaying memories, and more, to the zero footprint colony that has been built on an alien world, Newman has created a sleek, but realistic and lived-in world. Although there are a lot of items here that will feel familiar to sci-fi fans, I felt it was still original and quite enjoyable.Read more ›

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

I liked the colony's tech

By Deborah Jean Cohen on November 23, 2015

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I have to agree with Constant Reader's assessment of this book. It's well written, describing the main character's (Renata Ghali) mental illness and its development. I liked the colony's tech, but the world outside the colony remained vague and unexplained. The action portion of the plot was bewildering and nonsensical; I couldn't see how the ending was an ending. I found the narrative many times whiny and claustrophobic, and became impatient with Renata's fear and constant self-recrimination. I knew that the book had failed for me when all I cared about was if she would finally clean up her god damned house.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Interesting, but not the most original or satisfying book I have read

By Fooksie on November 15, 2015

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I really wish I enjoyed this book more than I actually did. The ending seemed rushed and while poetic, left me unsatisfied. The tech was well done, with the main character being very interesting and well thought out. But I have to ask what's the point of being on another world when that world and its creatures are hardly described? That part of the narrative seemed more of a thumbnail sketch than a well thought out eco system. Not a bad book, but I wish I had picked it up from the library instead of buying it.

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful

No real plot, no real ending, but an insight into hoarding as an illness

By Constant Reader on November 16, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

I'm confused by all the positive reviews, but maybe it's about what you expect? This is a book about mental illness wrapped up in a sci-fi package, which may be why it's spoken to some people. On the other hand, if you're not fascinated by hoarding, the lack of a plot and the abrupt ending in which nothing is explained or makes sense may be as frustrating for you as it was for me. As another reviewer noted, for a book set on another world this has almost no worldbuilding, descriptions of the world's creatures or features (except the starry night sky), and I kept waiting for a plot. Instead, the book diverted (it felt to me at first) into the main character's hoarding issues and then stayed there, for about a hundred pages, before the confusion at the ending. And by that I don't mean I was confused by the ending, I mean the ending came out of nowhere, made no sense, and left me thinking Newman wanted to write a book about hoarding and mental illness and just sort of folded the plot/scifi around it without worrying about its plausibility or all the unanswered questions it raises. Certainly not what you'd expect from the blurb and packaging.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Interesting idea, unfulfilled

By M. W. Gordon on November 22, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

I couldn't find a single character to like in this book. They're all cowardly, selfish, and ineffectively violent. The overall idea is compelling and the set up is good. By the time the ending rolls around, I'm unsurprised that the lesson is "think only of yourself and you will be rewarded".

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Some readers found this awesome. I found it to be awful

By John From Bensalem on November 26, 2015

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Some readers found this awesome. I found it to be awful. The last 45 or so pages were okay. I got the ending. However getting there was a struggle. Like other readers I found this to be mostly about struggles with hoarding. There was little if anything about the planet they were on. There are unlimited possibilities about colonization of other planets regarding strange plant and animal life, dangers, living conditions, etc. I also found "3D printers" to be a bit silly. By the time "earthlings" are ready to explore planets outside our solar system no one will even know what a 3D printer was. Different terminology would have been more acceptable.

For 270 pages I was bored. I almost put this book on the shelf without finishing it. It even put me to sleep a couple of times. In the last 25 or 30 years I have only put 2 books away without finishing. This was almost one of them. The only reason I gave this 2 stars instead of 1 is because the ending was somewhat interesting.

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