![]() ![]() ![]() Jazz puts aside her reservations and gets to work masterminding the perfect crime. When she’s offered a lucrative opportunity by an eccentric Norwegian businessman, it’s too sweet a deal to turn down. ![]() Jazz is one of those workers her wage barely covers her rent and she yearns for an apartment that’s bigger than a coffin and has its own bathroom. It’s home to extravagant billionaires and rich visiting tourists, with poorer workers who keep the city running smoothly and profitably. Jazz lives on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, with a population of 2000. Refreshingly, Artemis centres on a female character – the crafty, belligerent and whip-smart Jazz Bashara, a porter (glorified delivery girl) by occupation and criminal smuggler on the side. Second books are a difficult beast but Weir has written yet another clever and action-fuelled story packed with the author’s trademark wry humour and fast-paced science. Suffice to say, fans of Weir’s particular brand of witty, smart and high-concept storytelling were a tad excited about the release of his latest novel, Artemis. Released in 2011, it was both a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, before being adapted for the big screen by movie juggernaut Ridley Scott. Andy Weir’s debut novel, The Martian, was an absolute triumph. ![]()
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