While Carl helps her investigate, her cagey guide performs seemingly impossible hacking feats to block him, while protecting Dee, and also inviting her to take her revenge on the destroyers of Earth.

[2] According to Publishers Weekly, "Newman builds on the best elements of her interconnected Planetfall series for this superb fourth volume".

This winning combination of intriguing mystery and inventive SF richly rewards Newman’s longtime readers and will lure others to the series.

"[3] The Fantasy Literature review positively notes the book's "overwhelming claustrophobia, tension, and sense of impending doom," calling the novel a study in both internal and external psychological pressures.

Her overall verdict: "Atlas Alone is an unflinching dive into childhood trauma, social alienation, and the potential cost of survival instincts.