Sarah Scoles, Science Contributor: I listened to the audiobook version of The Martian while driving from California to North Carolina in 2015. But is Weir’s vision of future lunar life-particularly as it concerns Jazz and other minorities-really a better place to live? And according to Stephen Hawking, humanity should probably relocate to the Moon to escape Earth’s impending doom. For his follow-up, which came out on November 14, Weir wanted to try something different: Artemis follows Jazz Bashara, a 20-something woman of color who lives on the first (and only) city on the Moon, where she, well, moonlights as a smuggler.Įssentially, Artemis is a lunar sci-fi thriller, and it arrives at a high point in cultural moon lunacy-entrepreneurs like Elon Musk are infatuated with the idea of settlements there, and startups like Moon Express see Luna as a base for further spaceward travel. For his first novel, the 2011 blog-turned-book-turned-movie The Martian, Andy Weir chose a main character who was pretty similar to himself: a white guy who loves science.
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