Artemis
A thrilling noir crime drama Artemis set on the moon from the author of the hit The Martian
Jazz Bashar works as a courier. Sometimes even illegal, or of course better paid goods. How else to survive in Artemis, the only city on the moon, if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric millionaire? When you can barely make enough money to eat here? When even casual smuggling isn't enough to make a decent living? But everything will change when the Jazz get an offer to do the big thing. And for a reward so staggering that it simply cannot be refused. But this job soon goes over her head - she gets involved in a high stakes game to take over Artemis. And which she might not survive...
They wrote about the book:
A first-class action thriller. perfect for those who want to escape, if only for a while, the weight of the Earth. It can be read in one breath.
- USA Today
Andy Weir excels at geeky references, humor, and when it comes to ingenious scientific solutions to problems.
- Financial Times
I liked The Martian, so I picked up Artemis as soon as it came out in Czech. And I definitely did the right thing. Great scifi, humor, nothing challenging to read and yet suspenseful and well written.
- Reader reviews on databazaknih.cz
Andy Weir
The American writer studied computer science at UC San Diego, although he did not finish school. He began working as a programmer for Sandia National Laboratories at the age of 15, and then worked as a programmer for several software companies, including AOL and Blizzard, where he contributed to the game Warcraft 2. Weir began writing science fiction at the age of 20 and published his work on his own website for years. The first of his works to gain some attention was a short story called Egg, which was then made into several YouTube videos. However, it was not until his third novel, The Martian (Book Club, 2015), that he gained international fame. He originally published the text as a free web series, where some readers requested that it also be available on Amazon. It first sold for 99 cents and was later added to the Kindle bestseller list.
Read by Tereza Dočkalová
While studying acting at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava, she was already a guest at the Těšín Theatre, the Puppet Theatre and later at the Arena Chamber Theatre in Ostrava, where she drew attention to herself as Nina Zarečná in Chekhov's The Seagull. She also took up a permanent position here after school. Since 2013 she has been a member of the ensemble of Prague's Theatre pod Palmovkou, where she appears in a number of performances. In 2018 she received the Thalia Award for outstanding stage performance in Henrik Ibsen's Nora and six years earlier she won the same award in the category of actress under 33. He regularly cooperates with Czech Television and Radio.
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