Artemis

Reaction #1 -- The brain exhaustion I feel right now must be the sensory exhaustion one would feel after an all encompassing hours long orgy at the dirtiest, grimiest, sexiest sex club in town. Artemis, you see, is an orgy in itself. It's an orgy of blood and guys and cyborg compartments and circuit......more

As with Debatable Space, there's a lot about this book that normally I would dislike. The narrative is less fragmentary, but this one has footnotes (which don't add much to the story) and the same amount of profanity, carnage, and incoherence. The characters are not exactly lovable. And, yet again,......more

This book suffers from inconsistent pacing, too much mixed timeline and pages of infodumb about worldbuilding. I didn't hate ot, I liked the protagonist and wanted to know what happened to her. But because of the narrative I gave up a book at page 200 2,5 stars......more

Artemis was described like a stone-cold killer and a bookworm. That's why I bought the book. I thought that would be an awesome read, what could go wrong with that ? Well, the description was maybe too good. Stone-cold, yes, understatement of the century. It was very hard to empathize with Artemis. T......more

I have to say, I really loved this book! This is a prime example of how to write a great SF book without drowning the reader in SF concepts. Palmer wove in the cool techie stuff without expounding on futuristic concept monologues. Usually not a fan of first person, the author chose the perfect POV me......more