Artemis

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Andy Weir: Artemis (Hardcover, 2017, Crown)

Hardcover, 305 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2017 by Crown.

ISBN:
978-0-553-44812-2
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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 …

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This was fine. I found the protagonist irritating and had trouble telling many of the other characters apart. 

I think part of what I loved about Weir’s other books was that the main character was busy problem-solving things in interesting ways and this was mostly an emotionally immature non-astronaut having feelings. Weir clearly struggled to write a woman of color character and it comes off as awkward and cringey (though not nearly as bad as some other male authors 🙄) like, what was with the <spoiler>reusable condom</spoiler> subplot? 

Skip this one.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Science Fiction