Agent: David Fugate, LaunchBooks Literary Agency. Weir leavens the hard SF with a healthy dose of humor. Synopsis: The best-selling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller a heist story set on the moon. But in Artemis, Weir’s tried-and-true formula misses the mark. Get the audiobook on Audible (affiliate link) Artemis by Andy Weir. The independent, wisecracking lead could easily sustain a series. In BIG TREE (Scholastic, 528 pp., 32. The Martian and Project Hail Mary are two of my favorite sci-fi reads ever. The sophisticated worldbuilding incorporates politics and economics, as well as scientifically plausible ways for a small city to function on the lunar surface. But just as Andy Weir ’s first novel, The Martian (2011. She develops an elaborate and clever plan that showcases her resourcefulness and intelligence, even as she continues to have misgivings about her client’s true agenda, suspicions borne out by subsequent complications. In science-fiction terms, how ancient is that idea Nineteen fifties or worse. Trond asks Jazz to come up with a way to sabotage a competitor so that he can take over the moon’s aluminum industry. Artemis Fowl was such an interesting and enjoyable book. While youre reading along with kids, this book is a great opportunity to talk about antiheroes such as Artemis.

She hopes that her situation can improve drastically after she’s offered an impossible-to-refuse payday by wealthy entrepreneur Trond Landvik, who has used her in the past to get cigars from Earth. For now, she works as a porter, supplementing her legal income by smuggling contraband. In fiction, Jinwoo Chong’s novel Flux features a company that discovers a way to warp time, with complicated results for its main characters. Jazz Bashara, the heroine of this superior near-future thriller from bestseller Weir ( The Martian), grew up in Artemis, the moon’s only city, where she dreams of becoming rich.

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