One of my favorite things is watching or reading about people who are smart and competent, and this book is basically competence porn from start to finish. There was a lot of problematic stuff in it that I’ll address in a minute, but every time something came up I’d be all “Wow, this is so good – wait, WHAT?! Ooooh, something shiny!” and off my attention would run. I would be lying if I didn’t say that I zipped right through this book, loving every bit of it. The movie rights have already been sold and this is not a shocker given the success of The Martian and the movie-friendly structure of the book, especially regarding the last act which is very cinematic. This development turns the book into a heist story, which turns into a murder mystery/spy/thriller, which turns into a heist again, and ends in the action genre. Jazz agrees to take on a job for a regular client. Jazz is a porter and a smuggler, and is desperate to raise a large sum of money for a mysterious purpose. Jazz Bashara was born in Saudi Arabia on Earth, but moved to Artemis at the age of six.
Most of the town’s occupants are people who keep the town running – welders, janitors, prostitutes, bartenders, hotel housekeepers, etc. It has areas where tourists gawk at the sites and shop and eat, and areas where the very rich live permanently. It’s also full of slut-shaming and bizarre comments about the main character’s body.Īrtemis is the name of the first city, or rather small town, on the moon.
Like The Martian, Artemis is full of smart people, and I sure do love smart people. And like a bag of chips, it had many delights, but it was also problematic in many ways and altogether not very good for me. I gobbled up Artemis, the new book by the author of The Martian, like a bag of chips.
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