![]() ![]() There are good guys, bad guys, cops, femme fatales, investigations, double crosses, lying, you name it. Every trope from every heist story you’ve ever heard is here and it’s a bore. Of course, there’s no book without the heist, but everything that comes after is so much less interesting than getting there. Things take a turn for the worse, though, once Jazz starts the heist. She’s also an underdog she may live on the Moon, but she’s got it tough, and that struggle is very human and relatable. She provides the reader with an on-the-ground perspective of Artemis as well as relating the facts and science behind it. Through all of that setup, Jazz is a welcome tour-guide. It feels almost like walking through a time-machine into the near future and it’s a blast. ![]() ![]() Every detail, from the laws, to the atmosphere, the economy, security, tourism – it’s all here, carefully spread across the first third of the story. Weir did a mind-numbing amount of research of how a city on the surface of the Moon could actually be possible, and any time he’s describing it, it’s utterly mesmerising. Jazz may be the star of Weir’s story but the star of the book is Artemis itself. She, of course, takes it, but suffice it to say things don’t go very well. Eventually, she’s given an opportunity to make a lot of money by pulling off a dangerous heist. The main character is Jazz, a slick, down-on-her-luck smuggler who grew up there. In the book, Artemis is the first city not built on Earth, but the moon. ![]()
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