Andy Weir

A Novel

Artemis

Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.

Manu

That’s the thing about crying yourself to sleep. When you wake up, the problems are still there. 

Esmée Mangoensoewito

It's one of the stupidest things I've ever done. And that's a field of intense competition."

The thing that sucks about life-or-death situations is how boring they can be.

[…] you could get any drink you wanted, as long as it was beer.

Okay, I won't lie. Rudy DuBois is a seriously good man. He's two meters tall and blond as a Hitler wet dream.

Adam

Brilliant story set on the moon, nice touches of technical details and comedy mixed through a gripping story. Would highly recommend to anyone that loves sci-fi.

Vicky  Nuñez 

Andy Weir returns to space with his new book Artemis, but even though it has a few similarities (mainly in the main characters), Artemis is a completely different book. So wipe The Martian from your mind because otherwise you'll hate it.

Artemis takes place in a colony in the Moon populated by around two thousand people from all around the world. The clashing of cultures made for a really fun environment to read. And that was my favorite thing about this book: the world-building it went into creating the colony! I really do hope that if a colony does come to exist(hopefully soon) it will be somewhat similar.
I also loved the whole heist element, it was thrilling and fun.

The main character, Jazz is funny and sarcastic, very much like Mark Watney. The biggest issue people may have is that (also very much like The Martian), a lot of the plot relies on Jazz's intelligence and wit. Her intelligence and the idea that she was so smart is what made the whole plot. I've seen some people complain about her and that she's so annoying unlike Mark. But she's basically Mark Watney as a girl. So to me, if you say you don't like her because of that you're saying that a woman who's funny is annoying or is not believable for a woman to be that smart. 

I, for one, really enjoyed every character! I think it's unlikely, but I wish Andy Weir continues writing in this same setting just because I think it's so interesting. It does have a more complex plot and it does feel more rushed that his previous book, but it was so enjoyable!

I thought Jazz was a badass, although she does act a bit immature(I did forget how old she was at times). But she's funny and I loved how smart she was and that she was wasting it all being a smuggler. And Weir can just give her a spaceship and we can have her go be Han Solo.

Overall, Artemis is a really interesting book. I don't think is as memorable as The Martian, I think the setting has promise but it had a few issues. 
I'm still satisfied and will continue to read anything Weir writes.

Jazz Bashara adalah kriminal. Atau semacam itulah. Kehidupan di Artemis, kota pertama dan satu-satunya di bulan, bakal berat kalau kau bukan seorang turis kaya atau miliarder eksentrik. Jadi, tidak apa-apa kalau sesekali kau memasukkan barang-barang selundupan, kan? Apalagi kalau kau banyak utang dan bayaran sebagai portir tidak cukup untuk membayar sewa. Tapi situasinya berubah ketika Jazz melihat kesempatan untuk melakukan kejahatan yang sempurna, dengan hasil yang terlalu menggiurkan untuk ditolak. Tapi hal ini malah membuatnya tercebur ke dalam suatu konspirasi untuk menguasai Artemis, dan kesempatan Jazz untuk selamat ditentukan oleh berani-tidaknya dia mengambil tindakan yang lebih berisiko lagi.

asmooth

Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara adalah seorang pengantar barang (porter) di Artemis, yakni satu-satunya kota di Bulan dengan fasilitas lengkap, memadai, dan modern. Artemis terdiri dari lima kubah raksasa (buble) yang diambil dari nama para astronot; Aldrin, Conrad, Amstrong, Bean, dan Shepard.

Jazz bermimpi untuk bekerja di EVA, sekelompok orang yang diizinkan keluar Artemis dan berada di Bulan, namun gagal saat tes. Ia kembali menjadi porter sekaligus sosok kepercayaan orang-orang kaya sebagai penyelundup barang ilegal ke bulan. Kemudian salah satu pelanggannya, Trond Landvik, mengajak Jazz bekerja sama untuk menyabotase pabrik aluminium di bulan dengan bayaran 1 juta slug.

(Note: Slug atau Soft Landed Grams adalah alat tukar barang di Artemis. 1 slug = 1 gram barang yang dikirim dari bumi ke Artemis. Misal, berat barang bumi 43 kg = 43.000 slug.)

Berdasarkan rencana, Jazz akan menyabotase harvester pabrik alumunium milik Sanchez sehingga perusahaan tersebut kehilangan kontrak dengan Artemis, lalu Trond muncul sebagai "penyelamat" bersama oksigen yang dibawanya. 

Namun segalanya tidak berjalan sesuai rencana, Trond ditemukan terbunuh. Jazz menjadi buronan para petinggi EVA sekaligus incaran pembunuh Trond. Jazz berakhir terjebak dalam konspirasi dan faksi yang melibatkan sindikat kejahatan teknologi revolusioner.

REVIEW
Saya tidak pernah membayangkan fiksi sains dipadu ekonomi kalau dieksekusi bisa mind-blowing begini. Sayangnya, terjemahan versi bahasa ini terlalu literal dan terkesan genderless. Nama tokohnya pun universal, nggak tahu perempuan atau laki-laki.

Menurut saya konsepnya bagus, tapi arah ceritanya malah jadi membingungkan. Meski page turner, cerita ini cukup abstrak karena terlalu banyak layer yang dipaksakan ada di dalam cerita. Tokoh utamanya pun tidak membuat saya "merasakan" isi cerita ini. Selain karakter Jazz yang cerdik dan pintar, sisanya tidak berkesan.

Untuk detail latar sebenarnya cukup oke karena ada peta kota Artemis sebagai visualisasi imajinasi. Penulis juga menambahkan deskripsi tambahan sebagai penguat informasi. Tetapi seiring berjalannya cerita, entah mengapa detail itu malah terkesan berantakan. Translasinya pun kurang rapi. 

Bila mengesampingkan fiksi ilmiahnya, menurut saya world building-nya terasa hambar dan tak imajinatif. Beberapa bagian cerita cukup seru—apalagi bagian petualangan di Bulan, sisanya abstrak; mulai dari gambaran kehidupan di Bulan, sabotase, tiba-tiba pembunuhan, lalu "petualangan" yang dipaksakan dan ... adegan yang weird.

Note: Mungkin akan menjadi cukup sensitif bagi beberapa umat tertentu karena ada bagian yang berbenturan dengan agama. So, please be wise.

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.

So when they make this into a movie, they're going to be using the Arctic Monkey's Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino album as the soundtrack right?

Kairos

I'm sorry, this book wasn't worth my time. I almost couldn't finish it. The story is as predictable and plot-convenient as it goes, and the characters are all straight up either annoying or forgettable. The world building is interesting and the political construction in the Moon cities is well thought. But besides that, the story progress and character development is just so boring.

I really, really wanted to like this book. The plot is good, the concept is really interesting and unique but the main character Jazz has quite clearly been written with the male gaze in mind. 

I was so excited for a female protagonist, I did enjoy the Martian and hoped a strong lead would make this book my new favourite. However, I was left very frustrated. After an entire book, I hardly knew this character. All she cared about was money, drinking and making sexual comments and jokes about sex and being a 'girl.' 

She had no depth or redeeming qualities. It was mentioned time and time again that she was so intelligent, a genius even, but that she wouldn't apply herself. Over and over again she mentions how stupid she was as a teenager, how stupid she is now and how she doesn't want to hear any comments about her "limiting her potential." It felt as though any time she achieved anything worthy of recognition it was diminished by an underhanded comment about "not being bad for a girl," or totally disregard in favour of a sexual joke instead. 

Juliet Tuppurainen

I really, really wanted to like this book. The plot is good, the concept is really interesting and unique but the main character Jazz has quite clearly been written with the male gaze in mind. 

I was so excited for a female protagonist, I did enjoy the Martian and hoped a strong lead would make this book my new favourite. However, I was left very frustrated. After an entire book, I hardly knew this character. All she cared about was money, drinking and making sexual comments and jokes about sex and being a 'girl.' 

She had no depth or redeeming qualities. It was mentioned time and time again that she was so intelligent, a genius even, but that she wouldn't apply herself. Over and over again she mentions how stupid she was as a teenager, how stupid she is now and how she doesn't want to hear any comments about her "limiting her potential." It felt as though any time she achieved anything worthy of recognition it was diminished by an underhanded comment about "not being bad for a girl," or totally disregard in favour of a sexual joke instead. 



Eitan Hershkovitz

He overcompensates really hard for being male writer, writing a female character. Uses a lot of cliches in his dialogue that make it cringy to read. The story was decent.

C. J. Daley 

I actually got this book from Book of the Month with every intention of physically reading it, but then I saw it on Audible and the narration was done by Rosario Dawson, and I had to listen to it instead. Honestly, the narration really elevated the book too! 

This is a sci-fi Moon-living action packed story, that honestly would feel a little murder-mystery-y in the middle if it didn't move so fast! (I mean that in a good way). Overall it was very fun and the world building was awesome

Thanks to my brother who introduced me  this wonderful writer. Book is so good if you like space with a lot of fun. 

Shidehdeishidi

Cheri Fuller

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.

Colleen

3 Stars
 
The most important thing to understand about Artemis is that it is NOT The Martian. I knew that well ahead of time, so I didn’t experience the disappointment that so many readers did. It’s always tough for authors who have a spectacular debut effort. People tend to be harsher about whatever follows. Artemis wasn’t a bad book by any means, but it definitely was not as engaging as The Martian. But I won’t make this review only about comparing the two books.
 
Artemis is set in the near future in a colony on the moon. It is narrated in first person by Jazz Bashara. The only break from that is the inclusion of letters between her and her childhood pen pal. These were explained eventually, but they seemed completely random at first and didn’t fit organically with the rest of the story.
 
Jazz was not particularly relatable or likable, and that is probably what hurt the book the most. Weir probably should have avoided writing a female main character especially since the story is told in first person. I didn’t love Jazz, but at least she was spunky. If the two of us were in the same room, we’d probably want to punch each other’s lights out within five minutes, but she was entertaining enough to read about. Jazz is an intelligent, but underachieving smuggler. She takes a private job to commit sabotage, but it quickly goes awry, and she is stuck way over her head.
 
This is billed as a caper, but that element was underwhelming. As I mentioned, it’s more about sabotage than your traditional caper. It just didn’t have the special spark for me. It also was only borderline funny; nothing to make me laugh out loud. There is still quite a bit of technical info, but it felt dry without the humor and investment in the characters to balance out the technicality.
 
It was a middle of the road book to me. Even if I hadn’t loved the The Martian, this would still be a three-star book. It was engaging enough, but not mind-blowing. I never connected with the characters enough to get me emotionally invested. And the plot wasn’t strong enough to balance that out. But I still look forward to reading whatever Weir comes out with next. Though maybe he should avoid writing a female lead character…


RATING FACTORS:
Ease of Reading: 4 Stars
Writing Style: 3 Stars
Characters and Character Development: 3 Stars
Plot Structure and Development: 3 Stars
Level of Captivation: 3 Stars
Originality: 4 Stars

She grew up on the moon, of course she has a dark side... 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 Jazz's 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 more unlikely than the first.

Jens Madsen

3.5 Stars. It was quite an entertaining read, but somehow I find that Andy Weir's choice of narrating the story from the perspective of its female protagonist comes a little short. Author is a good storyteller but somehow his representation of the main character is slightly off. On a more positive note, it is interesting to read a book where the plot is once more (like The Martian) extremely science based.

Artemisa es la esperada nueva novela del autor de El marciano, el libro que ha abierto la ciencia ficción al gran público, convirtiéndose en un fenómeno editorial en 40 países con más de 3.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos, y una película de gran presupuesto: Marte de Ridey Scott, con Matt Damon como protagonista. Jazz Bashara es una criminal... O al menos lo parece. La vida en Artemisa, la primera y única ciudad de la Luna, es difícil si no eres un turista adinerado o un multimillonario excéntrico. Así que hacer un poco de contrabando de lo más inofensivo no cuenta, ¿verdad? Sobre todo cuando hay que pagar deudas y tu trabajo como transportista apenas paga el alquiler. De pronto, Jazz ve la oportunidad de cambiar su destino cometiendo un delito a cambio de una lucrativa recompensa. Y ahí empiezan todos sus problemas, pues al hacerlo se enreda en una auténtica conspiración por el control de Artemisa que le obliga a poner en peligro su propia vida... Críticas: «Weir muestra una habilidad de virtuoso al escribir situaciones altamente técnicas y hacerlas comprensibles a los lectores.» Kirkus Reviews «Weir ha creado la combinación perfecta entre acción y aventura clásica en el espacio.» Library Journal Críticas sobre El marciano: «La mejor novela de ciencia ficción en años.» Wall Street Journal «Un impresionante debut.» Entertainment Weekly «Una lectura que devorarán los fans de los viajes espaciales.» USA Today «Un thriller de supervivencia que no da tregua, entretenido y creativo.» Ernest Cline

Artemisa

Mac Navarro

Great book but don't even try to read the Spanish version. If you can this is a book you have to read in English

Shona Tiger

Not sure. Somewhere between a 2 and a 3. Not the most enjoyable book (and that's so sad, I really wanted to like it!).

I didn’t expect to enjoy this as much as I did. Weir’s past books have been a bit too action- and science-heavy for me - but this time around, I really got into it. This is a very fun romp, with a main character who’s delightfully unlikeable. I didn’t believe a lot of the dialogue, and some of the characters tended towards flat stereotypes, but I didn’t need the book to be perfect when it was this much fun. Half the reason I enjoyed it so much was Rosario Dawson’s fantastic narration. If you read this one, consider listening to the audiobook.

Naomi J.

Ryan LaFerney

The world building was interesting but I did not care for the protagonist Jazz. Also, who wrote the dialogue? A thirteen year old boy obsessed with sex?

Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon... 'Fascinating' Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut ______________________ WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon. Population 2,000. Mostly tourists. Some criminals. Jazz Bashara is one of the criminals. She lives in a poor area of Artemis and subsidises her work as a porter with smuggling contraband onto the moon. But it's not enough. So when she's offered the chance to make a lot of money she jumps at it. But though planning a crime in 1/6th gravity may be more fun, it's a lot more dangerous... ______________________ Now available to preorder: PROJECT HAIL MARY, the new novel from Andy Weir, author of ARTEMIS and THE MARTIAN ______________________ What everyone's saying about this smart, high concept thriller: 'A smart, fun, fast-paced adventure that you won't be able to put down' Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One 'What a page turner!' Milda on Goodreads, 5 stars 'Fast paced, high octane and highly entertaining' Chrys on Netgalley, 5 stars 'Artemis does for the moon what The Martian did for Mars' Guardian 'A first rate thriller, this had me hooked from beginning to end' Robert on Netgalley, 5 stars 'An absolute must read' Lauren on Goodreads, 5 stars 'A clever and action-fuelled story' Culturefly 'For those who loved The Martian, you won't be disappointed' Liz on Netgalley, 5 stars

A gripping sci-fi thriller from the author of The Martian

Emelie

Efter att verkligen ha tänkt efter vilket betyg boken skulle få så landar det ändå på en 3a. 

Jag gillade storyn i sig men jag avskydde hans maskulina syn på hur bad Ass inkluderat girl power och feminism ser ut... det handlade mer om hur han TROR att en kvinnlig bad Ass ser ut. Vilket gjorde att jag störde mig extremt mycket på att Jazz var den klassiska "dricka öl och ligga med killar" - prototypen för bad ass. Nej, gör om, gör rätt och den här boken hade definitivt varit en 5a!

Nice and short. I loved the setting and the presented world but did not like the main characters personality. 

Felix

sophia n

this gets a full extra star for the narration rosario dawson did. i think if i'd just read the physical book, i would've given it 2 stars. but she brings a lot of life to jazz and the story itself, does really good accents and voices for the whole cast, and i also just loved listening to her speak.

the pros: 
- weir is clearly a smart writer, and the "sciencey stuff" as me, a dumbass, is affectionately coining it, was actually really fun to read. it made the entire COMPLETELY ludicrous and wildly fictional setting feel almost real, like we actually do have a entire city on the moon right now lmao.
- honestly, rosario dawson narrating is a huge pro, as i said above.
- it's actually a pretty fast read, and pacing wasn't too bad.
- fun cast of characters and the descriptions/world building of the setting was really awesome.
- i actually sort of liked the ending, though it was not at all what i was expecting.

the cons:
- the plot confused me a few times, not that i couldn't follow it, but in the sense that i just couldn't really figure out who the bad guy was supposed to be, because motivation sources were abundant. i can see that this might have been on purpose, but it didn't really feel successful to me in misdirecting me. it just was annoying. (was the real bad guy ... capitalism all along????)
- jazz is ... hard to like. she's grating, mostly because she reads like a really immature adult. i didn't mind this past a certain point, especially once you got some of her backstory, and i actually liked her by the end, but i think it's still a con bc i attribute this to dawson and not weir lol.
- in that same vein, jazz is really sex-positive and kind of volatile which i actually liked, but then i remembered she was written by a man and it felt kind of icky.
- tho i said above i liked the ending, i also multiple times thought it was gonna go in a completely different direction, and i think i might have liked one of those other directions more.

all in all not a bad read, pretty entertaining, but not incredibly strong either.

I don’t usually go for this genre which is maybe why this was not as compelling to me as others, but even so I still found it to be a relatively enjoyable read. 

Alyssa deRaad

Kirsten Simkiss

It’s hard to put into words how I feel about this book. After having read and loved The Martian, I was interested in this book in general. What I got in this book, however, was not what I wanted.

Jazz Bashara is a strong independent moon woman who don’t need no man. But honestly? I found her to be kind of exhausting as a main character. While the witty retorts worked well to alleviate the stress in The Martian, here it seems to be her entire personality. That, on top of being a female character clearly written by a man, made for a main character I couldn’t really relate to.

The book alternates regularly between Jazz’s quippy retorts and information dumping. To some degree, I know that info dumps can be necessary, but most of it wasn’t really that important to the average reader in the long run. It was like one of those scenes in a movie where the science geek says something really complicated and the other person goes, “In English please?” It was like that. The whole book.

As far as the world goes, I do think that Weir had a great concept. It was definitely interesting. How accurate the science of it all was, I can only guess. But, as a person who is okay with a little suspension of disbelief, I thought most of what was said about the city of Artemis was pretty cool and generally made sense, even when it was more complicated.

All in all, it’s not a terrible book. Would I ever reread it? No. No I would not. And I probably would not recommend this to others unless they were looking for scientific space colony ideas.

lovedddd it. super likeable cast of characters, got hooked on their hectic space escapades. could have got lost in the science-y elements of the book, but that wasn’t the case — super easy to keep up with it all! my favourite of weir’s novels :)

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