Claim: Cloud Atlas is modeled from a fictional work by David Mitchell.

Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel , the third book by British author David Mitchell . It consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant , post-apocalyptic future . It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award , and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize , Nebula Award , Arthur C. Clarke Award , and other awards .   A film adaptation of the same name was released in 2012 .