REVIEW: Artemis (book) by Andy Weir

Artemis is science fiction. I bought my copy new.

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I read this way back in May 2023, so my memories are fuzzy. Thankfully, I was still taking notes on my reading back then, so that can help flesh out my memory a bit.

Jazz is a small-time smuggler/delivery girl on Artemis, humanity's first and only lunar colony. She's barely scraping by and needs to get a large amount of money soon for reasons I can't recall, so she agrees to pull off a job sabotaging an aluminum company's harvesters for a rich client. However, things go wrong, people end up dead, and suddenly the fate of Artemis depends on Jazz somehow completing her original sabotage plan.

REVIEW: Project Hail Mary (book) by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary is science fiction. I bought my copy brand new.

Contains mild spoilers.

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The main character wakes up with no memory of who he is, where he is, or what's going on. Memories gradually come back to him. His name is Ryland Grace, and he was part of a crew of three that was put in suspended animation on a ship called the Hail Mary. Why him? He doesn't know. What, specifically, was he supposed to do? He doesn't know that either. But he does know that his mission is vital to the survival of life on Earth, and since his two other crew members died at some point during the trip, he's going to have to accomplish his mystery mission on his own.

The Martian (book) by Andy Weir

The Martian is sci-fi. It's also Andy Weir's first novel.

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The Martian is a near-future look at what might happen if an astronaut were accidentally stranded on Mars.

NASA had already previously sent astronauts to Mars on two separate occasions, so Mark Watney's mission, while not danger-free, was supposed to be relatively uneventful. Then the sandstorm happened. The rest of Watney's crew had every reason to believe he died in it, and so they left him behind. Except that he didn't die, which meant that he had to figure out how to communicate with Earth in order to let everyone know he was still alive, and he had to figure out how to go from 300 days worth of food to enough food to last for four years, the amount of time it would take for the next scheduled Ares mission to arrive.