![]() And so there were a lot of places where my beta readers, for lack of a better term, would say, “This is kind of a very man way of saying this. One thing I learned during this process is there are certain cases where a man and a woman will convey the same thought with very different words. So, my mom, my girlfriend, my editor’s boss, my editor’s assistant, the copy editor - everybody who in the kind of inner circle of people I could trust, I was like, “Please give me feedback on anywhere that it doesn’t ring quite true.” So I guess there was a little bit of crowdsourcing there a bit, but that was about all I could do. One thing I did do - I was pretty insecure about writing a female lead, so I basically gave it to every woman that I could trust not to put it up on Pirate Bay or whatever. ![]() Because it was a traditional publishing contract this time. People are happy to do the suspension of disbelief to go into Artemis, but by God, they won’t give up their coffee.ĭid you do any crowd-sourced fact-checking when writing Artemis like you did for The Martian, or was the manuscript under lock and key? People are like, “Well, you could make the coffee in a pressure cooker, or you could cold-brew it.” There’s a lot of options here. It’s funny - that one little line - I’ve gotten so much feedback on that. That’s an issue a lot of people have pointed out. I’m not sure how long I’d last in Artemis if they didn’t have decent coffee. If a city on the Moon is built in your lifetime, would you visit? “I would love to write a bunch of stories that all take place in Artemis, not necessarily with the lead same characters.” Weir tells Inverse why he selected Kenya as the location of the space corporation that would make a Moon city possible offers his expectations for the Artemis movie, and shares who he turned to for advice when writing his Saudi Arabia-born female narrator, Jazz Bashara. A-lister Rosario Dawson has given voice to Jazz, its protagonist, in the audio version, and Twentieth Century Fox has bought the movie rights, with Chris Lord and Phil Miller signed on to direct the movie version. (It’s “disgustingly cold,” by the way, since water boils at lower temperatures in Artemis’ lower air pressure). Weir has imagined Artemis down to the last detail - including the taste of coffee. Named for the Greek deity, daughter of Zeus and twin of Apollo, Artemis is a city on the moon in his book. He’s delved into all the geeky minutiae again with Artemis, which was released this week. The Martian - both the 2015 Matt Damon film and Weir’s Martian novel - captured a lot of attention for Weir’s meticulous scientific research and detailed description of the tech operated by protagonist astronaut Mark Watney. Author Andy Weir launched himself to massive success with a Mars survival tale, and with his second novel, Artemis, he’s delivering a heist story on the Moon.
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