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Artemis is a novel written by Andy Weir. Released in 2017, it tells of Jasmine Bashara life as a fugitive on the titular Lunar city of Artemis.
Characters[]
- Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara
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Publisher's summary[]
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 heist-y fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.
Summary[]
Jasmine Bashara is a 26-year-old woman who moved to Artemis, the only city on the moon with her father when she was 6. After making bad choices during her teenage years, she is now poor. She is a smuggler, bringing in illegal items, such as flammables, into the city. During one of her regular smuggling trips, she is offered one million slugs (the currency used in Artemis) by a billionaire named Trond Landvik to destroy the property of an aluminum factory. Trond wanted it destroyed because during the process of aluminum making, oxygen is created. Sanchez Aluminum, the company that owned the aluminum factory, had a contract with the city to provide them oxygen. Trond had been storing oxygen, and he wanted to take over the contract with the city.
Jasmine, after creating a plan to destroy the harvesters that took rocks in order to make them into aluminum, went through with the beginning steps of the plan, and all went well. However, while destroying the harvesters themselves, she was discovered by Sanchez Aluminum and they prevented her from destroying the last harvester. She had to leave the scene before she could finish destroying the harvesters.
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See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Moon | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2018 | A novel about political intrigue on the Moon |
| 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | A novel with similar themes |
| Gunpowder Moon | David Pedreira | 2018 | A novel about political intrigue on the Moon |
Sources[]
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