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Artemis

Artemis, November 2017
by Andy Weir

Crown
Featuring: Jazz Bashara
305 pages
ISBN: 0553448129
EAN: 9780553448122
Kindle: B06Y55SB48
Hardcover / e-Book
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"A riveting and riotous look at life on the Moon."

Fresh Fiction Review

Artemis
Andy Weir

Reviewed by Clare O'Beara
Posted April 17, 2018

Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller

So after reading ARTEMIS, Andy Weir presents us with his trademark hard sci-fi in a sequence of physics, chemistry lessons, pressure escapes, and desperate dashes. While the domed city has no view of the outside, tourists want to walk on the surface and pay well to be guided around, and Jazz hopes to quadruple her income by being approved as a tour guide. A leaky suit valve blocks her certification, but the fact that she now has a pressure suit sets her up for a series of dangerous escapades. I was reminded of classic SF books like Have Spacesuit Will Travel and The Stainless Steel Rat, in particular. Having a female lead was the best way to establish individuality. Physics and lunar setting aside, are readers supposed to like Jazz? Is she a good daughter or girlfriend? Her dad is a welder who has taught her everything he knows and happens to be a Muslim, though Jazz didn't absorb much of his religious teachings. She even drinks. We learn there have been boyfriends, but a broken heart caused her to swear off relationships for a while. The other women in the book are tough cookies, however refined and scientific or economically trained. However, I was frustrated with a young teenage woman, who is on the Moon for her health. I kept wondering if Weir could have invented something better for her mobility than just crutches! Additionally, I would have liked more descriptive passages about the outdoors; I kept visualizing the brownish Martian landscape and yellow sky instead of the grey and black of the Moon. Nonetheless, we also find a mix of cultures and social standings, with the odd film or book reference thrown in, because the colony has to import all its entertainment. If you loved The Martian, then you'll enjoy

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SUMMARY

Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time. So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions—not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down. The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself. Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she’s in way over her head. She’ll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city. Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal. That’ll have to do.


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