Artemis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian comes a “propulsive” (NPR) tale of science, suspense, and humor—a heist story set on the moon.
“An action-packed techno-thriller of the first order.”—USA Today
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. But engineering the perfect crime is just the start of her problems—because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis herself.
Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, 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.
“An action-packed techno-thriller of the first order.”—USA Today
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. But engineering the perfect crime is just the start of her problems—because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis herself.
Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, 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.
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Community Reviews
Well written and on par with the author’s other works so far as quality goes. The only major issue was that this book has a bad case of, “men writing women,” which ruined some of it for me. I wouldn’t rate the plot this as highly as The Martian or Project Hail Mary, but it was a fun to read.
A community much like Houston but on the moon! Also a badass porter who gets in over her head just trying to make a buck. Hilarious but of course, it is after all Andy Weir, so plenty of science of blue collar class fit in the small station of Artemis.
Loved The Martian. This book does have the in-depth science aspects of The Martian, so you can actually imagine it working. Unfortunately, Weir chose to have a young woman as his first person POV. He's not a young woman, and I don't think he has learned to write from that POV yet. I can imagine Matt Damon playing a male version of the Jazz, being totally under pressure and still having the time to be a smartA. Oh yeah, that's The Martian. Anyway, it doesn't work, unfortunately. More things go wrong in this than every caper movie written all put together. Nope.
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