Artemis
{4.5/5} “You can’t gestate a baby in lunar gravity — it leads to birth defects. And you can’t raise a baby here, anyway. It’s terrible for bone and muscle development. When I moved here I was six years old — that was the minimum age for residency back then. Since then they’ve bumped it up to twelve. Should I be worried?”
Artemis by Andy Weir, published in 2017
Jazz lives in Artemis, the city on the Moon. She does deliveries, including some illegal ones. She tried to get her EVA license, but failed because her suit developed a leak. She has a cart that she drives around that she named Trigger. Rudy is head of security — he would deport her if he ever caught her smuggling. When there’s a fire in the glass factory, she’s one of the volunteers who shows up to help.
In between the regular chapters, there are letters Jazz exchanged with her pen pal on Earth when she was a kid.
It’s about how useful and at the same time tricky it is to commit a crime where you know everyone in town. It’s about what you would do to protect your town from the mob. And, as always with Weir’s novels, it’s about using science to solve your problems.
It’s a delightful novel.
This is the 2nd book I’ve read by Weir. I previously reviewed Project Hail Mary.