By Andy Weir

Jazz Bashir is just a girl, living on the moon, trying to make a living. Mostly by being a smuggler, but then she is contracted to to get a certain item that will set her up to become legitimate – she can’t resist. But things do not go as planned, and Jazz now has to figure what her next step is…

Weir’s first book, The Martian, was a taught, hard ish sci-fi phenomenon. It had strong word of mouth (or email and message board), I read part of the serials on his website, bought it on Kindle for .99c, and loved the movie adaptation. I read a sample of Artemis when it first came out and was underwhelmed. It felt like a normal sci-fi story. After reading Project Hail Mary, I decided to give this another shot. Coming back to it now, it’s a better than average sci-fi heist tale. It shows its influences well – Asimov, Heinlein, the old masters. Enjoyable.

305 Pages

3.5/5