After the fifth or sixth occurrence, I thought “wow, this is why female readers hate it when men write from a woman’s perspective”. One or two of these things throughout the novel would have seemed normal, but all of it packed into this three hundred page story felt gratuitous. That product is a reusable condom and he has chosen her to test it because he knows she is promiscuous. At another point, she meets a brilliant engineer friend who wants her to test out a new product he has designed. At one point in the story, she is trying to obtain some information and dresses like a prostitute to gain access to a restricted area. She has a reputation for sleeping around and nearly every interaction she has with a male character includes the topic of sex in some form. What I did not like about Jasmine was the oversexualization of her character. She has quite a bit of baggage that she has not yet unpacked, but it informs her actions, misguided though they may be. She has a mouth on her that gets into trouble as often as it gets her out of it. Weir uses his knowledge and fandom of the history of manned spaceflight and space exploration to craft a believable lunar colony. Did you know that while moon dust looks soft and pillowy, it is actually composed of very small balls of spiky rock and if you breathe it, it will shred your lungs? Good safety tip. When the job goes bad, she is forced to run for her life, but when you live in an enclosed lunar colony, there aren’t many places to run to.Īs in The Martian, Weir’s science explanations are in layman’s terms, allowing people who aren’t NASA geeks (and I use that term with utmost affection) like him to participate in the story and understand the science of lunar colonies. When Jasmine is offered a dangerous but lucrative assignment by a wealthy benefactor, she jumps at the opportunity. The colony’s lone star of justice, Rudy, has his watchful eyes on Jasmine but has not yet been able to catch her in the act.
Jasmine makes ends meet by moonlighting as a smuggler, a side hustle with particular synergy with her work as a porter. Jasmine is intelligent and has great potential, but instead of applying herself in a science or a trade that would benefit the colony, she works as a porter making deliveries much to the disappointment of her father, also a resident of Artemis. As I have stated previously, I am a slow reader, but I blasted through Artemis in a week during a handful of reading sessions including a particularly relaxing one at the beach.Īndy Weir returns to a first person perspective, this time telling the story as Jasmine, a twentysomething of Saudi descent who was raised on the lunar colony Artemis. This year, 2021, he published Project Hail Mary, which reminded me that he had published his second novel, Artemis, four years ago and while I own a copy, I still had not read it.
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In 2014, Andy Weir successfully realized the dream of transitioning from software engineer and science nerd to blockbuster novelist with the Crown Publishing release of The Martian.
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