Origin: The Dan Brown Plot Machine Takes On Creati.For his first novel, the 2011 blog-turned-book-turned-movie The Martian, Andy Weir chose a main character who was pretty similar to himself: a white guy who loves science.Artemis: Silly Sciencey Fun.But Mostly Silly.Certainly a step back from The Martian, but how could anyone be that good twice in a row? It’s an inventive story that probably feels smarter than it actually is. It's slows it down considerably.Įven so, I was still mostly entertained. And that's too bad because that's supposed to be mid-rush-to-the-end of the novel. There's one scene in particular near the end, that, unless you want to know a bunch about pressure valves and the metallurgy of welding, is INTERMINABLE. Cool story, bro” to WAY-too-in-the-weeds. Sometimes it's funny, often it's not.Īnd then the science and "did you know?" stuff ranges from genuinely fascinating to “Huh. She talks and thinks like a nerdy virginal dude in his goofy dorky fantasies would hope women think and talk like (but don’t actually ever).
Jazz seems less like a woman and more like a geeky dude's ideal robot woman. Part of the silliness in this book is that I'm not sure he's exactly comfortable writing a woman character. Weir ranges from legit hilarious to silly and Beavis-ish (which I love!) to just dumb.
Of course, things go awry, and Jazz uncovers a plot that goes much deeper than simple corporate espionage and malfeasance. One of those guys proposes a big pay day for her if she can sabotage some of a big company's big moon rock harvesters. The story, which takes place on the moon, is about Jazz, a spunky woman who makes ends meet by smuggling contraband to rich guys on the moon's first permanent colony, Artemis. But if you liked Weir's schtick in the The Martian - wisecracking smart ass is also brilliant MacGyver-like sciencey schemer - you'll probably find enough fun here to keep turning the pages So even though the hype for his follow-up was feverish, you just had to know Artemis wasn't going to be quite as good. That novel is the most fun I've had with a book in a long, long time. There's just no way Andy Weir could've been as good as he was in his debut, The Martian.
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