Pocketbok, 280 sidor
Publicerades 15 november 2017 av Karakter Uitgevers BV.
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 …
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 heisty fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.
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The main character's voice was perfection.
The main character's voice was perfection.
I enjoyed it .. it was fine. But not as wonderful as The Martian and Project Hail Mary.
I quite liked The Martian, but this is just dire. Weir the engineer gets to have a lot of fun, and his explanations of how a moonbase might actually work in real life - at least the technical parts of it - are actually fascinating. I'd love to have read a simple, dry, non-drama non-action 50-page history and explanation of Artemis.
Instead, he has to try and build a plot around it, and everything that was slightly off about The Martian gets to take centre stage while everything that worked gets thrown out the airlock. Instead of one person and a distant team vs the forces of nature, we now have a plucky outsider hero vs a not-very-mysterious villain. Weir tries to be 21st century by making the hero a woman of colour, which hey, points for effort, but his attempts at getting into the head of a 20-odd-year-old …
I quite liked The Martian, but this is just dire. Weir the engineer gets to have a lot of fun, and his explanations of how a moonbase might actually work in real life - at least the technical parts of it - are actually fascinating. I'd love to have read a simple, dry, non-drama non-action 50-page history and explanation of Artemis.
Instead, he has to try and build a plot around it, and everything that was slightly off about The Martian gets to take centre stage while everything that worked gets thrown out the airlock. Instead of one person and a distant team vs the forces of nature, we now have a plucky outsider hero vs a not-very-mysterious villain. Weir tries to be 21st century by making the hero a woman of colour, which hey, points for effort, but his attempts at getting into the head of a 20-odd-year-old woman by way of tons of sex jokes get very tired very soon, and with no in-story reason for her to constantly be monologuing and throwing cheap jokes at the reader. The moonbase is an interesting construction, but where he could have got a lot of mileage out of exploring just who would choose to live in a place like that he just throws in a bunch of flat characters with Very Obvious Traits that are basically walking Chekov's Guns. Where The Martian had clever people solving impossible problems, here the stakes are a lot lower and consequently everyone has to be a technical genius but a functional idiot. The can-do optimism of The Martian gets turned into a dime-a-dozen caper plot, with very little to recommend it.
Very barely 2 stars, and that's just for the technical problem-solving aspects.
