{"id":18936,"date":"2017-06-01T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/5-revelations-about-the-future-moon-from-artemis-the-next-book-by-martian-author-andy-weir\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:15:40","slug":"5-revelations-about-the-future-moon-from-artemis-the-next-book-by-martian-author-andy-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/5-revelations-about-the-future-moon-from-artemis-the-next-book-by-martian-author-andy-weir\/","title":{"rendered":"5 revelations about the future moon from \u2018Artemis,\u2019 the next book by \u2018Martian\u2019 author Andy Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_330758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330758\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330758\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/artemisbook.jpeg\" alt=\"Artemis\" width=\"250\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/artemisbook.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/artemisbook-197x300.jpeg 197w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/artemisbook-200x304.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/artemisbook-66x100.jpeg 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-330758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book cover for Andy Weir\u2019s \u201cArtemis.\u201d (Crown Publishing Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The writer who made such a splash with \u201cThe Martian,\u201d Andy Weir, is sharing the first chapter from \u201cArtemis,\u201d a crime caper&nbsp;set on the moon \u2013&nbsp;and the thrills start hopping on the very first page.<\/p>\n<p>You can get up to speed with the exploits of twentysomething porter Jasmine \u201cJazz\u201d Bashara, thanks to an excerpt posted to the \u201cRead It Forward\u201d website. The story is set decades from now, when \u201cStar Trek\u201d is studied as intensely as Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>To whet your appetite, here are five features of the future moon you\u2019ll find out about in the excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Artemis is laid out:<\/strong> Artemis is \u201cthe first (and so far, only) city on the moon,\u201d spanning about a quarter of a mile. It consists of five half-buried domes, known as \u201cbubbles,\u201d that are named after five Apollo moonwalkers: Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Bean and Shepard. Conrad is where the grunts live, Aldrin is where the tourists stay, and Shepard is where the super-rich make their homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s in charge on the moon:<\/strong>&nbsp;The city is the property of the Kenya Space Corporation, or KSC. Standard time in Artemis is Kenya Time, and a huge Kenyan flag flies just in front of the airlock. (For what it\u2019s worth, property rights are likely to become a big issue as commercial operations extend to the moon. Like the U.S., Kenya is a party&nbsp;to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to do for fun on Artemis:<\/strong> Tourists get a kick out of taking a half-hour train ride to the Apollo 11 Visitor Center and seeing humanity\u2019s first landing site on a world beyond Earth. But there are racier&nbsp;things to do: Because the moon\u2019s gravity is one-sixth of Earth\u2019s, sex is totally different&nbsp;\u2013 and that\u2019s a novelty for married vacationers as well as trust-fund boys looking for \u201cmoon poon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Andy Weir (THE MARTIAN) talks about his new book ARTEMIS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jf0-zPMhDA4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What to use to pay the bills:<\/strong> The electronic coin of the realm isn\u2019t dollars or bitcoin. It\u2019s slugs, which is short for \u201csoft-landed grams.\u201d One slug gets one gram of cargo delivered from Earth to Artemis, courtesy of the Kenya Space Corporation. On the moon, slugs serve as the de facto currency: A single night at the Ritz-Carlson Artemis costs 12,000 slugs, which is more than Jazz makes in a month as a porter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which smartphone wins out:<\/strong>&nbsp;The hand-held device used in Artemis not only lets Jazz transfer slugs between banking accounts. She also uses it to pick up jobs for her porter gig, check the schedule for KSC freighter arrivals and unlock the door on her coffin-sized sleeping quarters. Any bets on whether it\u2019s Android, iOS&nbsp;or Windows?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we\u2019ll find out in later chapters. The whole book is due for release by Crown Publishing on Nov. 14, and Fox has already picked up the movie rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book cover for Andy Weir\u2019s \u201cArtemis.\u201d (Crown Publishing Photo) The writer who made such a splash with \u201cThe Martian,\u201d Andy Weir, is sharing the first chapter from \u201cArtemis,\u201d a crime caper&nbsp;set on the moon \u2013&nbsp;and the thrills start hopping on the very first page. 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