PS: I also, unfortunately, agree with your assessment of Artremis by Andy Weir. I finished it finally. It's not good. I figured out the problem -- Weir uses the same narrative voice he used in The Martian, Mark Watney, for a tough as nails, street smart, Muslim, Arabic woman who grew up on the Moon and is a smuggler, not to mention worldly. This woman would not talk like a 15 year old male science nerd with raging hormones. (The sex descriptions are cringe inducing). Also the plot made no sense. The only thing that worked was the science.
It's a great counter-argument to the idea of putting the science back in science fiction. Yes, that's great -- but character, plot, and story need to come first, science and world building second. It's a novel about a heist...and he interrupts an action sequence with a lengthy lecture by the tough smuggler on how chloroform can become a hazardous gas and how difficult it is to stop it. I got bored and ended up skimming most of it.
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Date: 2018-11-10 04:05 am (UTC)It's a great counter-argument to the idea of putting the science back in science fiction. Yes, that's great -- but character, plot, and story need to come first, science and world building second. It's a novel about a heist...and he interrupts an action sequence with a lengthy lecture by the tough smuggler on how chloroform can become a hazardous gas and how difficult it is to stop it. I got bored and ended up skimming most of it.