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Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel written by British author David Mitchell. The novel is comprised of six storeys spanning from the nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is a storey that is read by the main character in the next. The book is being made into a film, which will be released in October 2012.

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