Artemis

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Weir, Andy, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Weir, Andy
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.

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Snarky science-y fun submitted by eknapp on December 20, 2017, 2:20pm Jazz lives in Artemis, the moon colony. She makes her living as a smuggler. When the chance for a huge payday falls in her lap, she takes it...and it blows up in her face. Now she has to science the shit out everything if she's going to survive, let alone avoid deportation.

At this point I suspect Weir only knows how to write one personality type, but fortunately Mark Watney totally works as a snarky female science-genius scoundrel type.

Artemis isn't as meaty and satisfying as, say, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. But it is way more fun and it's a worthy successor to The Martian. No sophomore slump for Andy Weir.

Moon Mystery Thriller submitted by Meginator on July 3, 2018, 7:27pm Andy Weir was wise to follow up runaway hit The Martian with something slightly different; Artemis has much of the scientific precision and gleeful vulgar sarcasm that characterizes Weir’s debut but depends on a very different narrative framework to carry the story. At its heart, Artemis is a mystery/thriller set on a lunar colony with a suitable race-against-time plot that borrows heavily from the genre’s stalwart tropes while successfully transplanting them into a lunar environment. Though I applaud his decision to make his viewpoint character (and protagonist) a woman, Weir stumbles a bit in the execution and could have done more to have Jazz read as a plausible female character; some inconsistencies pulled me immediately out of the book. Despite this, the book is a lot of fun and Weir (predictably) makes the most of his imagined Moon colony, even if it’s neither as surprising nor as effortless as his debut.

Unique space story submitted by tayjayfo on July 20, 2019, 5:28pm This book was light and sometimes melancholy. I would hope the moon would be a better off in the future if colonized. But here we see a unique situation even among the vast lunar colony. Enjoyable to listen to on audio as well.

good book submitted by liqian on August 3, 2019, 3:53pm space story

overall fun read, but could use some work on accurate representation submitted by nsharifi on June 7, 2022, 9:44am This is a short and generally fun read, though if this is your first Andy Weir novel, I recommend reading The Martian or Project Hail Mary first which felt more well-rounded this book. One thing that generally irked me about this book is that is is very clear that the young brown female protagonist was written by a white man.

Great mystery and action, but protagonist felt written unevenly submitted by eilusk on July 24, 2022, 4:16pm Jazz's overall backstory and character motivations all felt coherent and compelling to me, but they often felt out of sync with her dialogue and some of her behavior. Some of the comic relief felt downright cringey. It struck me as too much like Andy Weir and not enough like a person with Jazz's cultural and personal background and tough(ish) criminal lifestyle, I guess.

I liked the jury-rigging and problem-solving in this book just as much as in The Martian. The last big twist, with the highest stakes, had me on the edge of my seat - I could feel the characters' anguish and desperation to fix it.