Artemis

a novel

by Andy Weir

418 pages

English language

Published Oct. 13, 2017

ISBN:: 978-0-525-53210-1
OCLC Number:: 987792900

(7 reviews)

"Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself--and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first" -- summary from author's web page.

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loopy reviewed Artemis by Andy Weir

Physics descriptive sci fi thriller

5 stars

I really enjoy Andy Weir’s writing especially because he brings his experience with astrophysics to his story telling, so essentially everything that happens in the book is how it works likely physically occur in real life. Some people may not enjoy the amount of description of physics throughout the book, but for me, it enhances the story.

This book is the most “thriller-y” out of the books I’ve read from the author. It did a good job of hooking me on and wanting me to discover more about the past of the protagonist. The map in the book aided in envisioning how the story unfolds.