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The Atlas Six

  • 2020 first published
  • 397 pages
  • ★ 3.5 (6 ratings)
  • 10 editions

Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six (2020) is a dark fantasy and stage-magic fiction novel. Readers will find themes of magic, magicians, secret societies and scholars.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 298 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 10 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Combined Print And E-Book Fiction bestseller list in 2022.

It runs to roughly 397 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

About The Atlas Six

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications. When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated.
Description from Open Library

Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Combined Print And E-Book Fiction, 2022

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Subjects

  • Magic
  • Magicians
  • Secret societies
  • Scholars
  • Sociétés secrètes
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Savants
  • FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
  • FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy
  • FICTION / Fantasy / Urban
  • Teenagers
  • Contests

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote The Atlas Six?

The Atlas Six was written by Olivie Blake and first published in 2020.

What genre is The Atlas Six?

It is usually shelved as Dark Fantasy and Magicians & Illusionists.

How long is The Atlas Six?

The median edition has 397 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Atlas Six?

Readers who like it often enjoy Libriomancer, Ninth House and Clockwork Angel.

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