Published April 4, 2019 by Newton Compton Editori.
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 …
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.
Propelled by its heroine's wisecracking voice, set in a city that's at once stunningly imagined and intimately familiar, and brimming over with clever problem solving and heisty fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.
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Definitely different from The Martian and Project Hail Mary which are literally one-man shows. Nonetheless quite a fun to read about the witty Jazz and her friends.
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Come on. It's a classic western in a frontier mining boom town on the moon. There are dusty (literally dusty) cowboys and sheriffs and posses and the old dried up mine and a mayor trying to hold it all together and one train (rocket) bringing trouble from the big city and one train that's an actual train and everything. If you get left out in the desert you're in trouble. What else do you want?
It's not quite as good as The Martian or Project Hail Mary. It takes slightly longer to get going, and the characters aren't as fun. But once it gets going, it's just as gripping.
I don't think the slightly reduced science problem solving (only slightly reduced, there's still a lot here) or the shift from guy-by-himself-trying-to-get-home to girl-doing-spoilery-stuff hurts the book at all; I just think that there needed to be a quicker starting place, …
Come on. It's a classic western in a frontier mining boom town on the moon. There are dusty (literally dusty) cowboys and sheriffs and posses and the old dried up mine and a mayor trying to hold it all together and one train (rocket) bringing trouble from the big city and one train that's an actual train and everything. If you get left out in the desert you're in trouble. What else do you want?
It's not quite as good as The Martian or Project Hail Mary. It takes slightly longer to get going, and the characters aren't as fun. But once it gets going, it's just as gripping.
I don't think the slightly reduced science problem solving (only slightly reduced, there's still a lot here) or the shift from guy-by-himself-trying-to-get-home to girl-doing-spoilery-stuff hurts the book at all; I just think that there needed to be a quicker starting place, a couple more likable characters, and a couple fewer sex jokes.
Mayyyyybe a woman could've looked over the main character's internal dialogue once or twice..
I had a lot of fun listening to Rosario Dawson bring this book to life. I laughed and was very involved in most of the book. But by the end, I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I think it was a little science-heavy for me and also predictable toward the last chunk. But the narrator made it all worthwhile.
I'd go 3.5.
I had a lot of fun listening to Rosario Dawson bring this book to life. I laughed and was very involved in most of the book. But by the end, I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I think it was a little science-heavy for me and also predictable toward the last chunk. But the narrator made it all worthwhile.
I'd go 3.5.
With all the verve that somehow made reading about Mark Watney’s potato farming efforts on Mars thrilling reading, Weir briskly and beautifully lays out an Oceans 11–style crime spree, to be carried out by the resourceful Jazz and her eclectic cadre of friends. It’s great fun, but what’s most remarkable is how carefully Weir has considered the real science behind his high-concept hijinks. He sprinkles in real chemistry, gravitational considerations, mathematics, and other hard science in concise and engaging passages this English major would probably skip over in any other book. Science is integral to the plot (and, in the unforgiving atmosphere of the Moon, a matter of life and death for Jazz), and it’s incorporated smoothly, deftly avoiding labored exposition or lecturing. The science is, in fact, delightful to read about, and it’s obvious Weir had just as much fun writing it.
See my full review on the Barnes …
With all the verve that somehow made reading about Mark Watney’s potato farming efforts on Mars thrilling reading, Weir briskly and beautifully lays out an Oceans 11–style crime spree, to be carried out by the resourceful Jazz and her eclectic cadre of friends. It’s great fun, but what’s most remarkable is how carefully Weir has considered the real science behind his high-concept hijinks. He sprinkles in real chemistry, gravitational considerations, mathematics, and other hard science in concise and engaging passages this English major would probably skip over in any other book. Science is integral to the plot (and, in the unforgiving atmosphere of the Moon, a matter of life and death for Jazz), and it’s incorporated smoothly, deftly avoiding labored exposition or lecturing. The science is, in fact, delightful to read about, and it’s obvious Weir had just as much fun writing it.
See my full review on the Barnes & Noble Science Fiction & Fantasy blog.
