Andy WeirShort Stories · Science Fiction·b. 1972
Artemis
Synopsis
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.
How it reads
Prose complexity 6/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence