Artemis
Andy Weir's follow-up to The Martian trades Mars for the moon and astronauts for criminals. Jasmine Bashara, called Jazz, lives in Artemis, the only city humanity has built off Earth, where every breath of oxygen is metered and the economy runs on Saudi-funded aluminum. She delivers contraband, dodges a Mountie, and writes letters to a Kenyan pen pal to make the rent on a coffin-sized bunk. When a billionaire offers her a million slugs to sabotage a competitor's harvesters out on the lunar surface, the job spirals into a corporate war that threatens to vent the whole colony. The science is vintage Weir, lovingly worked out and inseparable from the plot, the heroine is mouthy and sharp, and the result is a fast, plausibly engineered caper through humanity's first hometown beyond Earth.
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What you might want to know about Artemis
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Jazz Bashara is a porter and small-time smuggler in Artemis, the only city on the moon. A wealthy client offers her enough money to walk away forever, in exchange for one very illegal favor.
No. Artemis is a standalone novel by Andy Weir set on a near-future moon colony. It shares Weir's interest in problem-solving protagonists and hard science but is unconnected to The Martian.
A film adaptation has been announced with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller producing, but the project has been quiet since 2017. As of 2025, no release date has been confirmed.
Artemis was written by Andy Weir, published in 2017 by Crown.
Artemis is 322 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Artemis takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Artemis is a standalone novel by Andy Weir, not part of a series.
Artemis is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
