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Artemis


A Science Fiction Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Heist,
  • Near-Future,
  • Humorous
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  • Wisecracking lunar smugglers scheming through moon colony heists
  • Science-driven problem solving with explosive consequences
  • Moon city politics tangled with corporate sabotage and organized crime

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Artemis is set on a moon colony built inside pressurized domes and connected by tunnels, an artificial environment in which people could theoretically live on a celestial body as uninhabitable as the Moon.

It explores the realities of such a colony, how it’s driven by tourism and exists with its own legal and governmental entities separate from Earth. All of this is in the background to the story of Jazz, a sharp-witted lunar smuggler who gets dragged into a conspiracy of corporate sabotage and organized crime, but the setting makes for a fascinating examination of what life might be like in a such a society.  

Publisher 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 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 heist-y fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.

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