Before Mars, Emma Newman
Before Mars, Emma Newman
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Before Mars

Author: Emma Newman

Narrator: Emma Newman

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/17/2018

Categories: Fiction, Psychological


Synopsis

After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist-in-residence. Already she feels like she is losing the connection with her husband and baby at home on Earth—and she'll be on Mars for over a year. Throwing herself into her work, she tries her best to fit in with the team.

But in her new room on the base, Anna finds a mysterious note written in her own handwriting, warning her not to trust the colony psychologist. A note she can't remember writing. She unpacks her wedding ring, only to find it has been replaced by a fake.

Finding a footprint in a place the colony AI claims has never been visited by humans, Anna begins to suspect that her assignment isn't as simple as she was led to believe. Is she caught up in an elaborate corporate conspiracy, or is she actually losing her mind? Regardless of what horrors she might discover, or what they might do to her sanity, Anna has to find the truth before her own mind destroys her.

About Emma Newman

Emma Newman is a professional audiobook narrator and an award-winning writer of short stories, novels, and novellas in multiple speculative fiction genres. She cowrote and hosted the Alfie and Hugo Award-winning podcast Tea and Jeopardy. Emma is a keen role-player, gamer, painter, and designer-dressmaker.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 16, 2019

Sometimes it's quite hard reviewing books for which you KNOW are rather groundbreaking but do so in a quiet manner and stretch the quality across a span of books. It's never just one thing. It's a whole slew of wonderful worldbuilding quirks, a dedication to deep mystery, and extremely complicated ch......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on December 10, 2019

Oh, gosh. All the 'ze', 'hir' nonbinary designations? Weird but fun. Lovely Martian setting, evil gov-corps doing horrible stuff and so on... Goshy-gosh! Scary and powerful stuff. Q: Living with injustice is one of the hardest things in the world. (c) Q: This need to prove that we are not the worst of ou......more

Goodreads review by Justine on May 12, 2018

A deeply personal book that makes for a compelling read. As was the case in the previous two Planetfall books, Planetfall and After Atlas, Newman sketches the portrait of a deeply flawed main character struggling to survive and present as "normal". After Atlas gave us a glimpse of a future Earth, ru......more

Goodreads review by Gary on May 03, 2018

6.8 out of 10 at: [URL not allowed] Before Mars is the third standalone novel set in Emma Newman’s Planetfall universe, though the events of all three are loosely connected and having read the other two is helpful, if not necessary. In this one, geologist and artist Anna Kubrin......more