![]() We enjoyed hearing about the small differences in life on Artemis. Maybe the name recognition or pronunciation would have been more difficult. It would have made even more sense for a Kenyan god to be selected. ![]() We wondered why Artemis was chosen and not the Latin equivalent, Diana. We’re not the ones to live in the Old West it seems.Īrtemis is the Greek goddess of the moon. ![]() ![]() But also, the lack of justice wasn’t attractive. First of all, no paper books! That would be hard for bibliophiles like us. None of us would want to live on Artemis. Only instead of angry Native American tribes, cholera, or snakes, it was temperature, pressure, and lack of oxygen. There was one sheriff, a lot of vigilante justice, and death from the elements was just a hair’s breath away. We did wonder about the education system and how you’d put together a school system for so few children. At the same time, we didn’t want too many details because it would have weighed down the story. We had a lot of questions about life on Artemis. It seems a few other readers were in the same boat as me. ![]() I loved Weir’s first novel, The Martian, and I had to see how his Sophomore attempt measured up. One of my librarian friends told me her SciFi/Fantasy group was reading Andy Weir’s Artemis and I groaned because I knew she would talk me into reading it and coming to the meeting. ![]()
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