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Andy Weir · 2017 · US · science fiction
★ 3.67 Goodreads · 369,288 ratings

A smuggler living in humanity's first lunar city gets caught up in a conspiracy that threatens the entire moon colony.

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12 books for readers of Artemis

The Martian

Andy Weir · 2011 · US 99% match ★ 4.42 Goodreads · 1,389,103 ratings
shares: hard scifi, space, near future, hard sf · plain prose, fast-paced

An astronaut stranded on Mars must science his way to survival, one potato at a time.

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir · 2021 · US 99% match ★ 4.51 Goodreads · 1,908,738 ratings
shares: hard scifi, space, scientific, hard sf · plain prose, fast-paced

An astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of his mission, and must solve an interstellar puzzle with the help of an unlikely alien friend.

Old Man's War

John Scalzi · 2005 · US 97% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 235,399 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in Old Man's War
shares: space, propulsive, witty · easy read, fast-paced

On his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, which give him a young, enhanced body in exchange for leaving Earth for ever and fighting humanity's wars across the stars.

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 2011 · US 96% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 1,350,028 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Ready Player One
shares: commercial, near future, propulsive · easy read, plain prose

In a dystopian future, a teenager's encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s pop culture becomes the key to inheriting a virtual world's fortune.

Double Star

Robert A. Heinlein · 1956 · US 95% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 24,884 ratings
shares: space, propulsive, witty · easy read, fast-paced

Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, is hired to impersonate a kidnapped political leader for a single ceremony on Mars, and finds the role growing far bigger than he bargained for.

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch · 2016 · US 95% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 821,736 ratings
shares: commercial, scientific, propulsive · fast-paced, easy read

Jason Dessen, a physics professor in Chicago, is abducted one night and wakes in a world where he never married his wife and became a celebrated scientist instead, and he will do anything to get home.

Foundryside

Robert Jackson Bennett · 2018 · US 95% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 59,888 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Founders
shares: heist, criminal, propulsive · fast-paced, easy read

A thief in a city of magical industry discovers that the technology everyone depends on has a terrifying sentient origin.

Ringworld

Larry Niven · 1970 · US 94% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 131,517 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Ringworld
shares: hard scifi, space, scientific, hard sf · easy read, plain prose

Explorers discover a massive ring-shaped artificial world orbiting a distant star and must survive its ancient, dangerous wonders.

Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red

Martha Wells · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 4.65 Goodreads · 1,092 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in The Murderbot Diaries
shares: space, witty · easy read, fast-paced

A socially anxious security robot hacks its own governor module and must decide whether to protect its human clients or binge-watch TV shows.

Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1993 · US 93% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 91,132 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Mars Trilogy
shares: hard scifi, space, scientific, hard sf · speculative, deep world-building

The first hundred colonists on Mars attempt to terraform the planet while their ideological differences threaten to tear the mission apart.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein · 1966 · US 92% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 142,077 ratings
shares: space, propulsive, witty · plain prose, hopeful

Lunar colonists revolt against Earth's exploitation, guided by a sentient computer, a one-armed revolutionary, and a polyamorous family.

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson · 2015 · US 92% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 128,553 ratings
shares: hard scifi, space, scientific, hard sf · plain prose, speculative

When the Moon is shattered by a mysterious agent, humanity has two years to get enough people off Earth before the hard rain of debris makes the surface uninhabitable.