But quickly, the technical elements of the story become unnecessary. This sets off a chain of events featuring a rag tag team, a criminal syndicate, and a race to save the city.Ĭombined with science-fiction elements, the synopsis initially sounds engaging. One day a wealthy businessman offers her an exorbitant amount of money to damage a different company’s ore-collecting harvesters, so he can then rope the city into a profitable contract with his own harvesters. While her estranged father is portrayed as an observant Muslim, she herself is not, working as a smuggler.

The main character Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara and her father migrated there from Saudi Arabia when she was young. The plot of Artemis takes place in the titular lone lunar city Artemis, established by a Kenyan corporation. However, the addition of a Muslim character warrants further analysis and the potential of Muslim science-fiction.

In comparison, his 2017 novel Artemis fell short. He writes with wit and weaves these tales with remarkable fluidity by contrasting humor with impending doom, and the vast swathes of space and nature with man’s frailty against a backdrop of highly technical ingenuity. Both feature a tight plotline epitomizing the struggle against the forces of nature and humorous narrators. The Martian and his recent Project Hail Mary are excellent science fiction stories of a man’s last efforts to survive against all odds. Andy Weir, the author of The Martian (which the movie was based on) has become a household name for more ardent fans, and duly so. A number of movies in recent years like Dune, Interstellar, and The Martian thrust science fiction back into the media-consumer American consciousness.

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