{"id":32836,"date":"2018-10-19T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=32836"},"modified":"2018-10-03T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:28:13","slug":"artemis-by-andy-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/artemis-by-andy-weir\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis by Andy Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Artemis is the second Sci-Fi novel written by Andy Weir<\/a>. I loved Weir’s\u00a0first book, The Martian<\/a>,<\/em> and\u00a0also\u00a0the movie<\/a> based on it, even though I am not typically a Sci-Fi reader.\u00a0I\u00a0thought it was\u00a0smart and funny, with just the right amount of suspense. That is just how I like my books. Therefore, I was eager to read Artemis.\u00a0I checked out the audiobook version<\/a>, read by Rosario Dawson<\/a> (she’s great!).<\/p>\n

The main thing Artemis<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>had in common with\u00a0The Martian<\/em>\u00a0is that the characters are living\u00a0somewhere other than\u00a0Earth.\u00a0Beyond that, they are very different. Artemis is still smartly written, but I didn’t find it quite as funny.\u00a0Artemis is grittier.<\/p>\n

In The Martian<\/em>, an astronaut named Mark struggles to survive alone on the red planet after a mishap\u00a0leaves him accidentally abandoned by his\u00a0research team.\u00a0<\/span>I know, it doesn’t sound funny at all. But Mark is a character with a very good sense of humor, despite his dire situation. I rooted for him the entire time.\u00a0By contrast, Artemis is a futuristic moon colony populated by many\u00a0humans (some\u00a0live there, others are just visiting).\u00a0Artemis’ protagonist, Jasmine,\u00a0is a young, jaded crook. She starts out as a petty smuggler, but things escalate, intensely and quickly.\u00a0 Maybe other readers would feel differently, but I kept hoping that\u00a0she would get busted for her antics. Still, every misstep she takes is entertaining.<\/p>\n

A self-described “space nerd,” Weir describes the scientific principles of\u00a0living in outer space in a way that is pretty easy for a novice\u00a0to grasp.\u00a0I’m no expert, but it sure\u00a0seems like he knows what he’s writing about. I recently read\u00a0the Moon Base Alpha series by Stuart Gibbs with my 10 year old son, and many\u00a0things\u00a0are echoed\u00a0in\u00a0those books. For example, EVA (Extravehicular Activity) suits\u00a0are described\u00a0almost exactly the same in both books, by the two different authors.<\/p>\n

I have since started reading Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan<\/a><\/em>. It is rather amusing to see how Sci-Fi writing has changed over the years. Who knows? This may compel me to read more Sci-Fi \/ Fantasy as time goes on .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artemis is the second Sci-Fi novel written by Andy Weir. I loved Weir’s\u00a0first book, The Martian, and\u00a0also\u00a0the movie based on it, even though I am not typically a Sci-Fi reader.\u00a0I\u00a0thought it was\u00a0smart and funny, with just the right amount of suspense. That is just how I like my books. Therefore,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,10,12,5,1,8],"tags":[3342,4660,4618,4662,4661,774,730,4663,3341,4664],"class_list":["post-32836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-dvds","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-andy-weir","tag-artemis","tag-kurt-vonnegut","tag-moon-base-alpha-series","tag-sci-fi-fantasy","tag-science-fiction","tag-space","tag-stuart-gibbs","tag-the-martian","tag-the-sirens-of-titan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8xC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32836"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33390,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32836\/revisions\/33390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}