Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Andy Weir, author of The Martian and most recently Artemis published by Crown just a month or so ago.

Artemis is a story of the moon. Once again, as in The Martian Andy couples both hard science and a character driven plot, but this time it is coupled with a story of intrigue, murder and mystery.
As many of you know, Andy’s success story stems from his self published The Martian, picked up by Crown in 2014 and then made into the blockbuster movie starring Matt Damon in less time than you can say Jack Robinson and Artemis seems destined for the same fate. Its story is almost a template for a screenplay and the novel is almost cinematic in its approach.

Jazz Bashar is a petty criminal who is a smuggler of questionable goods to the populus of the Moon’s sole city, Artemis. From there we are led on a trail of murder and sabotage culminating in an ending that leaves us expecting more from a next book.