At times, Jazz’s fiery independent spirit gets in the way at times and doesn’t endear her to the reader. This means Weir’s writing has to work a bit harder to connect us with his main character, particularly when she is used as an unreliable narrator. Millions of people want to be astronauts, but millions of people don’t want to be desperate thieves wondering where their next paycheck is coming from. However, some of the character complexities in our protagonist bring with them a set of identification issues. The diversity of characters is a strength of the work in that the colony comes across as being diverse and inclusive. Jazz’s background as a sweary lapsed Muslim is complex, and Weir sketches out a set of interesting details around this and around the involvement of Kenya as an authority over the Luna Colony. Without the same sense of tension and identification as its predecessor, Artemis suffers with this content in a more obvious way.Īrtemis does try to engage other audiences. This is where Artemis shares a weakness with The Martian in that Weir is far more comfortable handling the technology than he is describing emotions, vistas and action. Artemis doesn’t have the same industrial quality to it either, in that we aren’t engaging with the dreams and imaginations of the science community in the same way, but we are still making use of the same technical explanations of how everything on the colony works. However, if this book is considered as YA, then the readership Weir is speaking to, immediately narrows. Weir’s prose is uncomplex, open and accessible, so this would be a good choice, in terms of categorising. The young age (and demeanour) of the protagonist does suggest this could be a Young Adult novel, and there isn’t much content to contradict this assertion, other than the swearing. ![]() There isn’t a sense of capturing the moment that we had from before. However, Artemis does not have the same kind of immediacy as Weir’s previous work. ![]() First, we went to Mars, now we’re going to the moon – fine – that works. There’s an immediate marketing pull for this work. Artemis is clearly his book, a work written in the same casual and confident first-person journal method as before. The experience of writing, submitted and editing The Martian has clearly helped Weir develop his style. If it is, with no mention of a moonbase in the previous book, the suggestion would be that it is set a ways in the future. Can she save everyone in time?Īrtemis might be set in the same fictional universe as The Martian, but there’s no discernible connection made in the narrative. Her experiences teach her more than she might ever want to know about how the Luna colony really operates. ![]() Struggling to make a life for herself, Jazz becomes embroiled in a criminal sabotage operation, placing herself, her friends and the whole colony in peril. Set in our near future, Artemis is the story of Jazz Bashara, a young girl living on the moon. Whatever he chose to write next was always going to draw attention. The global success of The Martian and its subsequent film adaptation, catapulted Andy Weir into the public eye.
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