Artemis
Book description
The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon.
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…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Artemis as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I couldn’t let this one pass by, not least because it helped solidify my name for the lunar colony in my books.
Once again, Andy Weir examines the themes of humanity as related to personal choice and responsibility in the face of a larger whole. Jazz navigates the perils thrown at her with humor, good will, and a healthy dose of self-preservation. Again, there’s a reason I think that Weir defines hopepunk for the modern author.
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Jazz Bashara, Andy Weir’s bad-ass female MC in Artemis, is one of my favorite female sci-fi protagonists of all time. Jazz is a “moon-girl” who makes her living on the Moon’s first city by using her job as a porter to smuggle contraband onto rocket deliveries via a childhood pal on Earth. An apostate Muslim, Jazz is wicked smart, funny as hell, and has a morale code that defies logic yet, somehow, makes complete sense. Weir brings his signature sense of humor to this character without dumbing her down or sexing her up. He takes us on a great…
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