Artemis by Andy Weir

The Tropes

✦ Moon Colony
✦ Snarky Protagonist
✦ Low-Gravity Physics
✦ High-Stakes Heist

The Story

Artemis by Andy Weir is set in humanity’s first city on the Moon. Jazz Bashara grew up there, knows every corridor, every rule — and exactly how to break them. She’s a smuggler. Not by choice, exactly — more by circumstance and a complete inability to follow rules she thinks are stupid. One job changes everything. A heist that could make her rich enough to finally get her life together. Except the job is connected to something much bigger and much more dangerous than she realised. Artemis is Ocean’s Eleven on the Moon — with thermodynamics.

Artemis by Andy Weir is pure, high-octane fun. It’s noticeably lighter than The Martian and moves at a much faster pace than Project Hail Mary. Driven by Jazz Bashara—easily one of modern sci-fi’s most entertaining and sharp-witted protagonists—this lunar thriller delivers a perfectly engineered heist story with a brilliant sense of humor.

Perfect if you love:
✦ Heist stories with smart protagonists
✦ World-building that makes a place feel completely real
✦ Science that actually matters to the plot
✦ Characters who are good at being bad

About the Author

After The Martian became a global phenomenon, writing Artemis by Andy Weir became one of the most anticipated and difficult second-novel challenges in publishing history. Artemis was his answer — a different kind of story in a different kind of setting, but with the same obsessive attention to scientific detail. Weir researched lunar economics, construction, and atmospheric engineering to build Artemis from the ground up.

The Moon colony in Artemis is built on real engineering principles. The domes, the atmosphere mix, the economics of a lunar city — Weir worked out how it would actually function before writing a single scene. Low gravity physics play a central role in the heist — what works on Earth fails on the Moon, and what seems impossible on Earth becomes trivial with one sixth the gravity.

• The Martian by Andy Weir
  Where it all started.
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  Weir’s best work. More emotional, bigger stakes.
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
  Heist energy meets epic sci-fi. Impossible to put down.