And there’s a steady stream of tourists to support just such an endeavor. She’s also training to be one of the select few that is allowed to put on an EVA suit and actually leave the habitat as a tour guide of the lunar surface. She’s tough, and practical, and pretty much only shows her rough side to those she interacts with. Jazz is a porter, moving items for people from one location to another, but she moonlights as a smuggler and sometimes thief, which is where she makes her real money. For instance, the social strata there is in full swing, there’s an underbelly to be found if you look close enough, and the drive of humanity in large measure and small is ever only all about one thing: money. 😉 There are also a lot of things that are really similar to Earth though. They’re closed off completely from the outside because, let’s admit it, the moon is a harsh mistress. The gravity is significantly less, the atmospheric pressure is also considerably lower, and the large majority of everyone lives within the bubble-spaces and tunnels of the city. There are lots of things that are different for her, than for us normal Earthers. She and a decently large population of people live in a habitat-city called Artemis. Doesn’t matter if it’s the second book in a series or your second stand-alone novel, “Sophomore Novels”, as they’re called, are notorious for wreaking havoc on the author and on their reading public.

Interested in what we thought of it? I figured you might be.ĪRTEMIS ( Amazon) is Andy Weir’s second novel, which can sometimes be a difficult thing to pull off. Oddly enough, I also had to wrangle with a bad CD copy of an audiobook for this one (I love my library, but yeesh this seems to happen a lot) but I set my rocket scientist mind to the problem and figured out how to get it to work.

Recently, one of our illustrious fans requested that we read and review Weir’s next book, Artemis. Saw the movie, tried to pick up the audio book once but it was a bad CD copy, and I just never got back to trying again. I never took the opportunity to read The Martian.

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