artemis

Andy Weir wrote The Martian--big book, big movie; didn't read, did see--so I figured I'd give this book a go. Artemis is also space oriented, and I guess you could call it SciFi, where I guess you'd probably say that The Martian was more Speculative Fiction. I know they're both SF, nerds can fight it out over here-->

Artemis takes place a little further in the future, at a space station on the Moon, that has a civilian population, so I guess you'd call it a colony. The moon colony, Artemis, is a little like the early European colonies in that they are remote enough that the folks that really should be controlling them (Earth folks) are really too remote to actually control squat.

That fact, along with our gal Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara, are the engine that drives this story. Weir does a great job putting together a world that is both familiar and foreign, futuristic, yet totally grokable. yeah, I'm looking at you Robert Heinlein, you crazy, dead bastard

Artemis is fun, well written, easy to read, and a little hard to put down. Jazz Bashara is a great character, and I don't know Andy Weir very well, but if I was a betting man, my money would be on see her again in another installment.

Read this book. 

And I guess I'll have to look up the first one at some point. 

Note: According to one source I found, they may also be making a movie out of this book too.