Kevin C. Wong

Book - Artemis (2017) [+]

Artemis is Andy Weir's second novel and standalone from The Martian. It's a story set on the first Lunar city set a few decades from now. Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara grew up on Artemis and is very bright but she made a couple of life mistakes when she was 16 and has been living on her own since. Now a decade later she is a small time hustler smuggling goods from Earth and doing odd jobs for rich clients.

One such client is Trond Landvik, one of the wealthiest people on Artemis (and Earth for that matter). He has a plan to take over the only heavy industry on the Moon, Sanchez Aluminum, and to do that he needs Jazz to do a little creative sabotage. But when the job goes wrong Jazz is soon running for her life because Sanchez Aluminum is a mob operation and they are not happy with Jazz or Landvik...

Like The Martian this is a first-person narrative told in a breezy style. Also like The Martian there is a lot of digestible technical details about life on the Moon and lots of Science! and Engineering! And the story is also quite engrossing as there are mysteries within mysteries with lots of players and Jazz not knowing who to trust. Definitely recommend.