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Artemis
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Overview
Andy Weir’s science fiction thriller Artemis, published in 2017, focuses on an imagined lunar city, Artemis. Weir’s background as an engineer supports the technical details that drive the plot. This hero’s journey follows Jazz, a smuggler, as she battles to save Artemis and herself. Artemis won the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the 2019 Geffen Award for Best Translated Science Fiction Book. As of 2022, Artemis was being adapted for the screen by Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Other works by Weir include The Martian and Project Hail Mary.
Content Warning: This guide includes discussion of sexual assault/sex with a minor.
Plot Summary
Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara is a smuggler and porter in Artemis, the first lunar city, and is struggling to lift herself out of economic hardship when wealthy businessman Trond Landvik, approaches her to take a sabotage job. Trond hires Jazz to break the four harvesters belonging to Sanchez Aluminum, which the company uses to extract anorthite. Trond’s stated motivation is to take over the operation and set himself up as the oxygen provider for Artemis (oxygen is one of the byproducts of aluminum smelting of the lunar anorthite rocks).
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