Zusatztext Praise for Artemis: An action-packed techno-thriller of the first orderthe perfect vehicle for humans who want to escape! if only for a time! the severe gravity of planet earth. The pages fly by. USA Today Revitalizes the Lunar-colony scenario! with the author's characteristic blend of engineering know-how and survival suspense...Jazz is a great heroine! tough with a soft core! crooked with inner honesty. Wall Street Journal Smart and sharpWeir has done it again [with] a sci-fi crowd pleaser made for the big screen. Salon.com Makes cutting-edge science sexy and relevantWeir has created a realistic and fascinating future society! and every detail feels authentic and scientifically sound. Associated Press Out-of-this-world storytelling. Houston Chronicle "Weir excels when it comes to geeky references! snarky humour and scenes of ingenious scientific problem-solving. Financial Times Weir has done the impossiblehe's topped The Martian with a sci-fi-noir-thriller set in a city on the moon. What more do you want from life? Go read it! Blake Crouch! New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Everything you could hope for in a follow-up to The Martian : another smart! fun! fast-paced adventure that you won't be able to put down. Ernest Cline! New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One A superior near-future thrillerwith a healthy dose of humor. Publishers Weekly (starred review) An exciting! whip-smart! funny thrill-rideone of the best science fiction novels of the year. Booklist (starred review) Narrated by a kick-ass leading lady! this thriller has it all a smart plot! laugh-out-loud funny moments! and really cool science. Library Journal (starred review) Praise for The Martian : Brillianta celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years. Wall Street Journal A gripping survival story. New York Times Terrifica crackling good read. USA Today A marvelRobinson Crusoe in a space suit. Washington Post Impressively geekythe technical details keep the story relentlessly precise and the suspense ramped up. Entertainment Weekly A story for readers who enjoy thrillers! science fiction! non-fiction! or flat-out adventure. Associated Press Utterly nail-baiting and memorable. Financial Times A hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire. Chicago Tribune Informationen zum Autor Andy Weir built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian , allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California. Klappentext The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller-a heist story set on the moon. Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity's first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she's owed for a long time. So when a chance at a huge score ...

Praise for Artemis:

“An action-packed techno-thriller of the first order…the perfect vehicle for humans who want to escape, if only for a time, the severe gravity of planet earth. The pages fly by.”—USA Today
 
“Revitalizes the Lunar-colony scenario, with the author’s characteristic blend of engineering know-how and survival suspense...Jazz is a great heroine, tough with a soft core, crooked with inner honesty.”—Wall Street Journal
 
“Smart and sharp…Weir has done it again [with] a sci-fi crowd pleaser made for the big screen.”—Salon.com

“Makes cutting-edge science sexy and relevant…Weir has created a realistic and fascinating future society, and every detail feels authentic and scientifically sound.” **—**Associated Press
 
“Out-of-this-world storytelling.”—*Houston Chronicle
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"Weir excels when it comes to geeky references, snarky humour and scenes of ingenious scientific problem-solving.” —Financial Times 
 
“Weir has done the impossible—he’s topped The Martian with a sci-fi-noir-thriller set in a city on the moon. What more do you want from life? Go read it!”– Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter
 
*“*Everything you could hope for in a follow-up to The Martian: another smart, fun, fast-paced adventure that you won’t be able to put down.” – **Ernest Cline, New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One
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“A superior near-future thriller…with a healthy dose of humor.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“An exciting, whip-smart, funny thrill-ride…one of the best science fiction novels of the year.” —Booklist (starred review)
 
“Narrated by a kick-ass leading lady, this thriller has it all – a smart plot, laugh-out-loud funny moments, and really cool science.” —Library Journal (starred review)
 
Praise for The Martian:

“Brilliant…a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years.” —Wall Street Journal

“A gripping survival story.” —New York Times

“Terrific…a crackling good read.”—USA Today  

“A marvel…Robinson Crusoe in a space suit.”—Washington Post

“Impressively geeky…the technical details keep the story relentlessly precise and the suspense ramped up.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A story for readers who enjoy thrillers, science fiction, non-fiction, or flat-out adventure.” —Associated Press

“Utterly nail-baiting and memorable.”—Financial Times

“A hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire.”—Chicago Tribune

Autorentext

**Andy Weir **built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.

Klappentext

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller-a heist story set on the moon.

Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.

Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity's first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she's owed for a long time.

So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can't say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions-not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can't handle, and she figures she's got the 'swagger' part down.

The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz's problems. Because…