Artemis

Books are about people, not necessarily about plots. Could anyone have done what this person did? Not necessarily, because not everyone was this one character.

I love science fiction stories which centre around the experience of one person. I want to see the world through their eyes, and I want it to be an authentic experience with faults and mistakes and messiness. Artemis brings me into her experience and this story could only happen with her at the centre, messiness and all. I learned about moon-living through Artemis' life, and without the impossible download of so much information.

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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.

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… show more.