Artemis
Kindle
$12.99
Available instantly
Audible Logo Audiobook
$0.00
with membership trial
Hardcover
$14.14
Paperback
$12.11
Audible Logo Your audiobook is waiting!
Enjoy a free trial on us
$0.00
  • Click above for unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
  • One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection — yours to keep (you'll use your first credit now).
  • You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
  • $14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel online anytime.
Learn more about membership
Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company
List Price: $29.95
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions Of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice.
Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs

Artemis Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Andy Weir (Author), Rosario Dawson (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 42,592 ratings
Editors' pick Best Science Fiction & Fantasy
See all formats and editions

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

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.

Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself - and that now her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.

Bringing to life Weir's brash, whip-smart protagonist is actress Rosario Dawson (Marvel's The Defenders, Sin City, Death Proof). With the breathless immediacy of one realizing they're one cracked helmet visor away from oblivion, Dawson deftly captures Jazz's first-person perspective – all while delivering sarcastic Weir-ian one-liners and cracking wise in the face of death. And with a cast of diverse characters from all walks of life calling Artemis home, Dawson tonally somersaults to voice Kenyan prime ministers, Ukrainian scientists, and Saudi welders. It's a performance that transports listeners right alongside Jazz, matching her step for step on every lunar inch of her pulse-pounding journey.

Previous page
  1. Listening Length
    8 hours and 57 minutes
  2. Author
    Andy Weir
  3. Narrator
    Rosario Dawson
  4. Audible release date
    November 14, 2017
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Audible Studios
  7. ASIN
    B0721NKNHR
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
  10. See all details
Next page

Read & Listen

Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible audiobook with Whispersync for Voice.
Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of $6.08 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product details

Listening Length 8 hours and 57 minutes
Author Andy Weir
Narrator Rosario Dawson
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date November 14, 2017
Publisher Audible Studios
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0721NKNHR
Best Sellers Rank #396 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#7 in Hard Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#9 in Adventure Science Fiction
#28 in Science Fiction Adventures

Customer reviews

4.2 out of 5 stars
4.2 out of 5
42,592 global ratings
Great read!
4 Stars
Great read!
It was a very, very good read. The only reason I rated it 4 stars is because there was a fold on the cover of the book (as shown in the picture). Other than that, though, the book was in excellent condition and I highly recommend it.
Hide
Thank you for your feedback
Sorry, there was an error
Sorry we couldn't load the review

Top reviews from the United States

kauaiguy
5.0 out of 5 stars good book, easy to get into the characters
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024
Verified Purchase
I haven't yet read other Andy Weir books, though most of my friends have - and so will I now that I've read Artemis. It's easy to get into the character, especially since she's quirky and smart. It's a believable viewpoint of a young adult growing up where they live, this case the moon. I'd recommend this even if you've read his others and didn't like them. It's unique, not too deep, good science, believable characters.
Helpful
 Report
Kevin T. Keith
4.0 out of 5 stars Hard Life in Hard Vacuum - a Rip-Roaring Lunar Caper
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2017
Verified Purchase
Taught and engaging thriller set in an intriguing, demanding environment. Fun, fast read and a well-worked-out caper threaded through the technical constraints of its lunar setting. Another Weir home run.

The excitement of Andy Weir's brilliant "The Martian" was the grinding technical challenges its protagonist had to meet, and his ingenuity in doing so. The plot was essentially nothing more than an extended series of DIY plans under conditions that seemed impossible. "Artemis" highlights the same technical mastery but works it into a more traditional story-line - essentially a heist caper set in the underworld of cutthroat corporate competition in the unusual setting of the essentially piratical economy inside the air domes of the first-ever lunar colony. This gives the book more of a sense of narrative flow, but also de-centers the technical material that so fascinated many of Weir's fans in the first book. Although this book works very well in melding its multiple avenues of background knowledge - technical, economic, cultural, and personal - they serve to dilute one another so that the detailed exegesis of welding in lunar vacuum is intercut with the dynamics of clan- and guild-based feudal economies, complicated by the intergenerational religious and personal politics of the protagonist's family, the developmental economy of a frontier outpost with no atmosphere, the chemistry and physics of smelting lunar ore, the protagonist's relationship with her ex-boyfriend's new boyfriend, the running of a smuggling operation between planets, and finally the basic plot of corporate sabotage. Readers who find one of these storylines more interesting than the others will find that 80% of the book is about extraneous issues. Neal Stephenson pulls this kind of complicated didactic narrative off with aplomb; Weir is a worthy runner-up, but this book doesn't have the heft of, say, "The Baroque Cycle" (which it very slightly resembles), or the light-hearted drive of "The Martian". The early-stage libertarian economy of the colony resembles that of Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," but is worked out with much greater economic sophistication. The technical detail is fascinating and carefully considered (do you know how to light a welding torch in outer space? - read this to learn!). The unforgiving physicality of living in such a searing environment pervades every page (how do you control a fire, or an air leak, on the moon? - in both cases, by sacrificing however happens to be inside the closest airlock). Though I think it is less gripping than Weir's previous work, "Artemis" is a fun and exciting read, and the protagonist is a brilliant character with a sassy personality not unlike that of the main character of "The Martian".

As to the actual plot: "Jazz" (Jasmine) is a menial laborer in Artemis, the first and only lunar colony. She works as a porter, hand-delivering packages between the handful of pressure domes that make up the city; this also gives her access to the cargo delivery shuttles, which she uses to operate a small side-business in smuggling. She is widely recognized as exceptionally smart and resourceful, but chooses to isolate herself and refuses any assistance from her father, a successful welding-business operator. She is approached by a wealthy resident with an offer of riches in exchange for helping him to acquire the ore-processing concession from the one major corporation in the city. How she goes about it, what the consequences are, exactly what technical processes are required at each stage of the complicated plot, and how she, and the city, came to be what they are, are gradually unfolded. In the end, Jazz is nearly dead and nearly broke, but has an exciting future ahead of her. It will be interesting to meet her again.
6 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
J. J. Mount
3.0 out of 5 stars Liked it well enough, but don't expect The Martian 2
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2017
Verified Purchase
I'm one of the millions who read The Martian, and saw the movie, and really enjoyed both. I truly had no idea what to expect from Andy Weir's next book, Artemis. The first few pages of Artemis landed me in familiar territory. The writing style, timing, and descriptions are very close to those of The Martian. The protagonist has changed age, gender, and economic level, but is still very familiar. A chatty smart-ass who describes things in great detail, especially technical stuff like welding aluminum. There's a lot of character interaction, which obviously was missing in the Martian.
I'm a retired engineer, so, as with The Martian, I enjoyed reading about all the science and engineering, and how things work. Not sure most readers will agree. The story does trace quite an arc, touching on technology, history, economics, organized crime, smuggling, rich & poor people, family dynamics, and failed relationships. What worked for me is the fast pacing, smart-ass dialogue, and the weaving of multiple threads together into a mostly-cohesive plotline.
What didn't work was the overall background structure. Many books set up a particular background environment and/or history and/or circumstances to support or drive the main story arc and actions desired by the author. Often, the background or backstory is plausible. Other times, a reader's reasonable suspension of disbelief can absorb gaps in logic or motivation, and other WTH moments. In Artemis, I couldn't force myself to accept or ignore my doubts about the backstory. SPOILERS AHEAD. I had a lot of problems with the administration of Artemis. There is supposedly little law enforcement and little crime, but smuggling is common and there is an underground currency? The entire facility was to be carefully economically planned and developed, but nobody planned for the end of the need for aluminum production and the impact on oxygen production contracts? No planned protection against sabotage? And nobody foresaw a problem with exclusive contracts and the potential for organized crime? Am I really expected to believe that a semi-governmental moon base/space transport agency was created in Kenya through some amazing economic manipulation? I didn't read an explanation for the way a Kenyan company somehow raised and invested the MANY TRILLIONS of dollars needed to create a moon colony, for years before the first dollar of moon revenue was generated. The entire colony has one administrator and one police officer? The heroine apparently controls all of the smuggling market? Why is an underground currency tolerated? This is all just too much for me to accept. Now, I agree that the author couldn't possibly use the sense of realism found in The Martian for this story. But I think that he should have made more effort to address these very logical questions. For me, a far-out explanation is better than no explanation.
Artemis is a decent story. Not as good as The Martian. And not worth the publisher's price.
6 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Jonathan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story - fun and easy to read
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
Verified Purchase
The author does such a good job of explaining all the science behind every aspect of the book. Great plot although I preferred Project Hail Mary. Would recommend to others!
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Ski Vieira
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024
Verified Purchase
Artemis is not as good as the Martian or Hail Mary but it was a fun read. The plot had unexpected twists and turns and kept your interest . The main character, Jazz, was a bit too "super hero" for my tastes. Artemis wasn't my favorite of his stories but I would still recommend it.
Helpful
 Report
Kindra Foster
5.0 out of 5 stars What a hoot!
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024
Verified Purchase
I loved the story and the irreverence of the main character. And her resourcefulness and gumption. As usual, as in any Andy Weir book, I learned a lot of science. You’re going to love it.
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

Jean-Marc Guillamot
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2024
Verified Purchase
You have a John Corey ( Nelson De Mille character) in skirt ( or rather moon uniform) in this very entertaining story. At times a little too much scientific jargon, but really a page turner set in a unique environment. The plot is well structured and action galore! A most enjoyable read on a long flight (may be to the moon?).
One person found this helpful
 Report
Cliente de Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good narrative, unexpected final
Reviewed in Mexico on July 20, 2022
Verified Purchase
I have all Andy Weird books, he gives a very detailed explanation of the events, places and circumstances, like you were there
One person found this helpful
 Report
Tino George
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read.
Reviewed in India on October 30, 2023
Verified Purchase
The book is good. But not as good as martian or Hail mary. I liked Hail mary more than all his books.

I liked all the details about moon exploration. Overall a good read.
Report
Tilma
4.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing read
Reviewed in the Netherlands on April 8, 2022
Verified Purchase
You know there’s going to be a film while reading, but really just give in to the narration and enjoy.
Report
Marcelo L
5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging, realistic scifi with a great story and protagonist.
Reviewed in Spain on May 30, 2021
Verified Purchase
I loved the Martian (the book). When I heard that "Artemis" was out I had great expectations, somewhat tempered by the tepid reviews I read in Amazon.
But this is a great book. I could not put it down.
The story takes place on the first city on the moon, when this city is just 20 years old. There is of course the scientific and engineering realistic background that Andy Weir displayed on the Martian and, in addition, the story of a young under-achiving girl, that the author makes you really care about.
The story is shorter than the Martian, but no less appealing. The protagonist is very different, though. No admired austronaut, but a poor, a little scoundrel girl with no studies, looking for a get-rich-quicly scheme.
Cannot recommend it enough.
Report