High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand`s fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing.Atlas Shrugged includes elements of mystery and science fiction, and it contains Rand`s most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction.