Artemis

Content Ratings

Mild Romance

Jazz has casual attitudes toward sex and prior relationships referenced in her history; no explicit sexual content is depicted on-page.

Mild Themes

The novel explores economic inequality in a company-town lunar settlement, corruption in corporate governance, and the difficulty of building a legitimate life in an economically trapped community.

Moderate Violence

Characters are killed in the course of the criminal conspiracy; sabotage events create life-threatening situations throughout the lunar colony; violence is action-thriller paced rather than graphic.

Synopsis

Jazz Bashara is a small-time smuggler living in Artemis, humanity's first and only city on the Moon, who gets caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens the entire lunar colony and must use her engineering knowledge and street smarts to survive. The novel is propulsive and technically detailed, with a fast-talking female protagonist whose voice carries the story's energy. Lighter in emotional weight than Weir's other novels.