![]() Since planetfall, or the day the colonists left the ship in orbit to reach the new planet’s surface, an entire society has been formed around the base of the planet’s only indigenous structure-a giant, enigmatic biological tower that the colonists call “God City.” When we first encounter Ren in the novel, she and the other colonists have been living quiet lives in a small community on the alien world to which The Pathfinder led them. To much fanfare, these “colonists” built a vessel known as The Atlas and set out among the stars. Suh, later known as “The Pathfinder” garnered a group of scientists, philosophers, and experts in various fields to solve the riddle of long-distance spaceflight in order to reach this new world. When Suh awoke from this coma, she had heightened intelligence and a clear vision that a creator-being was waiting for her on a distant world. Twenty years prior to the beginning of this novel, while still on Earth, Ren (then a young scientist) fell in love with a woman named Lee Suh-Mi, or “Suh,” who went into a coma during a hike, after encountering an alien plant growing in a forest. Renata “Ren” Ghali, is a woman who lives in a time surprisingly near to our own, but on a different planet. ![]() ![]() This is the central question at the heart of Emma Newman’s 2015 novel, Planetfall. What if someone offered you the chance to escape all of the issues you face in your life and start over on a distant planet with a new society? Would you take it… even if it came at a hidden price? ![]()
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