Artemis
Roman
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Willkommen in Artemis! Der ersten und einzigen Stadt auf dem Mond. Eine Stadt, in der zweitausend Menschen fernab der Erde ein neues Zuhause gefunden haben. Eine Stadt, die den Touristen ein unvergleichliches Weltraum-Erlebnis bietet. Eine Stadt, in der es keine Kriminalität gibt – bis zu dem Tag, an dem der erste Mord in Artemis geschieht und eine Reihe von Ereignissen in Gang setzt, die die friedliche Stadt der Zukunft in eine tödliche Falle verwandelt ...
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Jazz Bashara, the heroine of this superior near-future thriller from bestseller Weir (The Martian), grew up in Artemis, the moon's only city, where she dreams of becoming rich. For now, she works as a porter, supplementing her legal income by smuggling contraband. She hopes that her situation can improve drastically after she's offered an impossible-to-refuse payday by wealthy entrepreneur Trond Landvik, who has used her in the past to get cigars from Earth. Trond asks Jazz to come up with a way to sabotage a competitor so that he can take over the moon's aluminum industry. She develops an elaborate and clever plan that showcases her resourcefulness and intelligence, even as she continues to have misgivings about her client's true agenda, suspicions borne out by subsequent complications. The sophisticated worldbuilding incorporates politics and economics, as well as scientifically plausible ways for a small city to function on the lunar surface. The independent, wisecracking lead could easily sustain a series. Weir leavens the hard SF with a healthy dose of humor.
