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The Atlas Complex

core novel 2023 The Atlas Six

Record

First published2023
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating2.83 (34,306 ratings, collected 2026-08-24)
Page count496
First-edition ISBN9781250855138

Synopsis

The Atlas Complex concludes the Atlas Six trilogy, following the surviving members of the Alexandrian Society's cohort as the consequences of Atlas Blakely's ambitions and the group's own fractured loyalties, built up across the first two books, finally come to a head. With the Society's inner workings and Blakely's true agenda increasingly exposed, the remaining initiates are forced to reckon with how far they are willing to go, and what they are willing to sacrifice, for the extraordinary power their membership has granted them, as old alliances curdle under the pressure of the choices in front of them. The final volume brings the trilogy's central questions about ambition, loyalty and the true cost of magical power to a close.

Where it sits

Notes

  • From the series record (The Atlas Six): A dark-academia secret-society trilogy about six magicians competing for a place in an ancient magical archive; originally self-published in 2020, later acquired and reissued by Tor/Macmillan.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

  • Publication order, within the series The Atlas Six: position 3 of 3: previous The Atlas Paradox (2022)

Sources

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