Is Artemis connected to The Martian?

No. It is a standalone novel set on the Moon rather than Mars, with an entirely different cast.

Where and when is Artemis set?

In the late 2080s, in Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar city — a small domed settlement running on aluminum smelting and tourism and administered from Kenya.

Jasmine ‘Jazz’ Bashara is the novel’s narrator, a young porter who smuggles contraband on the side to escape poverty before a lucrative job pulls her into a conspiracy.

Is there an Artemis movie?

Film rights were acquired before the book was even published, but as of now no adaptation has been produced.

Artemis

Reader reviews of Artemis

Farnoush Fdi · 2026-09-26T06:59:11.000000Z

کتاب مریخی رو بیشتر دوست داشتم، ولی اینم باحالو خوب بود. یه کم با اینکه یه مرد سفید پوست از زاویه دید یه دختر عرب با پدر مسلمون بنویسه مشکل دارم. چون با اینکه به خیال خودش داستانش دایورسیتی داره و داره رپرزنتیشن میده به همچین افرادی، به نظرم وقتی تو نمیتونی مشکلات و دغدغههای اینطور افراد رو اون طور که هست نشون بدی و نمیدونی رابطه پدر مسلمون با دختر سرکشش چطوریه و فقط یه اختلاف پدر و دختری ساده که بین پدرو دخترای مسیحی خیلی رایجتره رو به تصویر میکشی، بهتره پس به همون روایت مسیحیت بچسبی. بجز اون شخصیت شوخ، باهوش و بیپروای جز رو دوست داشتم. خود داستان هم با اینکه نیمه اولش خسته کنندس، از نیمه دوم خیلی خوبو هیجان انگیز میشه، طوری که من نیمه اول رو تو یه ماه خوندم، ولی نیمه دوم رو توی یه روز تموم کردم. از ترجمه هم براتون نگم که عالی بود :)))))

A Novel

Fantasy Hard Sci-Fi

Pages: 480
Published: 2018
Language: English

In the late 2080s, humanity’s first and only city on the Moon is a company town of roughly two thousand people living under domes and running on smelted aluminum and tourist money. Jasmine ‘Jazz’ Bashara works there as a porter, ferrying packages while quietly smuggling contraband past customs to claw her way out of poverty. When a wealthy contact offers her a fortune to sabotage a rival’s operation, she takes the job — and lands in the middle of a conspiracy over who really controls Artemis. Part heist, part survival story, the novel runs on the hard engineering of life in low gravity and the economics of an off-world settlement, with a sharp-tongued, morally flexible narrator at its center.

Prose complexity: 6/10

Adventurous Tense Gritty Funny

Heist Survival Morally Grey

Andy Weir

Born in 1972 in Davis, California and raised in Livermore, Andy Weir is the son of a Lawrence Livermore physicist and an electrical engineer. He began working as a programmer at fifteen for Sandia National Laboratories, studied computer science at UC San Diego without graduating, and spent roughly twenty-five years as a software engineer at companies including AOL, Palm, MobileIron, and Blizzard, where he worked on Warcraft II. He wrote science fiction as a hobby for years, publishing free on hi...

Jasmine “Jazz” BasharaProtagonist

A porter and small-time smuggler on the Moon, scraping toward a better life when a lucrative job pulls her into a city-wide conspiracy.

Rudy DuBoisSupporting

Artemis’s lone constable, a persistent obstacle to Jazz’s illicit dealings.

Trond LandvikSupporting

A wealthy businessman whose lucrative offer sets the plot in motion.

Fidelis NgugiSupporting

The administrator who effectively governs the lunar city.

SvobodaSupporting

An inventive engineer and friend who supplies Jazz with useful gadgets.

All characters in Artemis

Frequently asked questions

Is Artemis connected to The Martian?
No. It is a standalone novel set on the Moon rather than Mars, with an entirely different cast.
Where and when is Artemis set?
In the late 2080s, in Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar city — a small domed settlement running on aluminum smelting and tourism and administered from Kenya.
Who is Jazz Bashara?
Jasmine ‘Jazz’ Bashara is the novel’s narrator, a young porter who smuggles contraband on the side to escape poverty before a lucrative job pulls her into a conspiracy.
Is there an Artemis movie?
Film rights were acquired before the book was even published, but as of now no adaptation has been produced.