No One Is Coming
A researcher's desk at night under one lamp: stacked notebooks, a folded topographic map, a pencil and a compass.

How No One Is Coming came to be

The Origins

By Atas

These pages tell how the book began: the question that started it, and the people who sat down with me to answer it. The conversations come from the research behind No One Is Coming. Their words are edited for length and clarity. The illustrations are not the actual people.

Names and details changed to protect identities.