Author Games: Atlas 01

An Author Games tournament, ten writers are pitted up against each other and faced with tasks that challenge their technical ability, emotional representation, and creative skills. Each week a new task is created and participants are eliminated until a lone winner remains.

"By the year 2050, Earth discovered a unity once thought the realm of impossibility. Cultures found brotherhood through tolerance, Political corruption surrendered to peace, and atomic energy was being used, not as a weapon, but as an almost limitless source of power. But it didn't last long. In 2090 in the dawn of a new century, people began to awake from the American dream.

Years of consumption lead to shortages of every major resource. Tensions resurfaced as the world began to wither. Peace became a distant memory. Now, in 2097 at the brink of planetary collapse and in the face of nuclear fallout, the United Nations funds a programme that is to become the last hope of survival for the human race."