Narrated by Rosario Dawson, Artemis by Andy Weir has a runtime of 8 hrs 57 mins on Audible.
Publisher’s Summary
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.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs 57 mins
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Release year: 2017
- Audible category: Literature & Fiction / Action & Adventure / Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Listener Ratings
Artemis holds an average listener rating of 4.3/5 from 100426 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.7/5
- Story: 4.2/5
- 5-star ratings: 55% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
3/5 stars — “Formulaic”
The Martian was a book while reading you thought this will make a great movie some day, Artemis on the other hand feels like it was written for todays movie audiences as a forethought.With a great concept, Weir falls short with his heroine, he shows us plenty at how technically astute he is but not so at writing from a woman’s perspective, which made the protagonists development weak, leaving less empathy for her actions. The overly ambitious plot has too many holes in it to make Artemis more than just ordinary and to me it had a chance to redeem itself but Weir opted for more of a hollywood ending.
Rosario Dawson has a wide range and delivers a solid performance but the stereotypical accents of some of the characters does not seem accurate for people living in the most diverse city ever.
Artemis just tries too hard not to be The Martian and ends up becoming more like Die Hard on the Moon .
— Paul Z, Audible listener
3/5 stars — “I was surprised at how mediocre this was”
I became a huge Andy Weir fan when I read "The Martian" and later the short 6 minute story called "The Egg". I was so excited for this new Andy Weir book. The first 3 hours I hated it. It was boring, and nothing was done to bring the reader into the characters, especially the main protagonist. After that, the book picked up the pace. It’s a short book, so throw out the first 3 hours and it’s really short. However, it still amounted to nothing more than an average sci fi story. Had this been my first Andy Weir book, I would have never read another. The reader was good, but her inflections of the main character’s voice would not have been the choice my mind would have gone to if I had read this instead of listening. Some of the time she had this so called street smart girl sounding like a dumb valley girl. I could not get into this one. Not at all.— Robert, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Finally a book I didn’t want to turn off…”
I can’t tell you how many books I buy and stop listening to after 1-2 hours and I never go back to them,This one was one you couldn’t wait to have an opportunity to turn on again, and normally the space/SYFY ones other than a Stephen King type I’m not that into this is a great read for any fiction lover!— Love me some, Audible listener
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