Now, I know what you're thinking.ĭon't I also write in the first person using a female voice? That's correct! The Collected Adventures of Lorna Lockheed is on sale now! Ya know what else? Mine is also snarky, sardonic and full of attitude. My suggestion is to get the audiobook, performed by Rosario Dawson because number one, she's awesome, and number two, she'll inevitably imbue the narrator with undertones of femininity that might save the story. That's how thoroughly 'male' the narrative voice seemed to me. In fact, even as the feminine pronouns piled up, I was sure they were typos. I honestly was surprised to learn many pages into the story that Jazz, the actual first person narrator, was indeed a woman. And despite his acknowledgements page where he thanks the alleged women who helped him capture the voice of a female narrator, he failed. He should be glad he made the queue at all. I'll be the first to admit that it's probably not fair to review a relatively new author back to back with Hemingway, Steinbeck and Vonnegut, but whatever. I'm not sure what it's actually worth, but it's a lot, I'm sure. When a rich businessman offers her a million moon-bucks to commit a much more dangerous form of vandalism and corporate terrorism so he can force an aggressive take-over of the moon's only real industry (aluminum and oxygen production), she says sure. She gets by on petty smuggling and delivery services and a strong sense of independent spirit. She's been there since the age of six and never wants to go back to Earth again.

It's more or less self-sustaining and our hero, Jazz, is a young woman of Middle-Eastern descent who considers Artemis her home. Artemis is the first and only city on the moon, a habitat of a couple thousand permanent residents mixed with perpetual tourists, inside little domes. This book takes place on the moon, probably in the near future, but the story doesn't get into the timing. I'll get to those in a moment.įirst, let me set the stage. Right from the get-go there were red-flags with Artemis.

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