Cloud Atlas is modeled from a fictional work by David Mitchell.
Cloud Atlas (film) . Adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell , the film has multiple plots set across six different eras , which Mitchell described as `` a sort of pointillist mosaic . '' Cloud Atlas (novel) . 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 .