History Literature / Artemis

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Upon finding the front door of Trond's mansion forced open with a crowbar and blood on the walls]] Jazz's reaction is this. To quote her directly "Nope. Nope Nope Nope Nope." right before she calls Rudy about what she saw.

* InspectorJavert: Jazz believes that Rudy is absolutely dedicated to getting Jazz deported for her smuggling activity, almost to the point of distraction, but he also knows that he needs evidence and she's very good about covering her tracks. [[spoiler: The truth is a little more nuanced. When Rudy ''does'' catch her red-handed, Administrator Ngugi gives Jazz a pass, and Rudy is unhappy but willing to follow the Administrator's directive. When a murder occurs, Rudy proves perfectly willing to work out a deal with Jazz in order to catch the killer, and he goes after the suspect rather than chase after Jazz.]]

* NoOSHACompliance: The DisasterDominoes incident in the third act would not have been possible had certain safety precautions been taken - [[LampshadeHanging many of which Jazz explicitly points out]]. This is pretty much the only thing that saves Jazz from an angry mob after it's revealed she was largely responsible for the incident.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Welding!

** [[spoiler:Dale]] views [[spoiler:sleeping with Tyler while he was still dating Jazz]] as this, to the point where he choses rekindling his friendship with the former over the promise of 150,000 slugs.
* NoEndorHolocaust: At the climax of the book, Jazz must rush to save the city [[spoiler: after her sabotage of the smelter inadvertently floods the domes with chloroform for about ''fifty minutes''. Somehow this fails to kill ''anyone'', though it's reported that three elderly residents suffered cardiac arrests. Even if you assume most of the population are healthy adults, Jazz's narration notes that she saw at least one young teen who was knocked out. Breathing chloroform for such an extended period should have resulted in dozens, if not hundreds of deaths, and damage to the livers and kidneys of many others.]]

* MoonBase: Artemis itself.

* {{Lunarians}}: Given this is modern hard Sci-fi the inhabitants of the moon are operating out of concrete domes that're essentially make a Frontier town, with company stores and venture industries monopolized by close knit groups of family and friends.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Initially Jazz is furious at Bobby for failing her on her EVA exam due to her suit developing a malfunction. Later she privately admits that his reason for doing so was completely valid.
** Sure, Dale [[spoiler:was the reason Tyler left Jazz]]. However he points out that [[spoiler:Tyler was never going to be happy with a woman, and would have broken off the relationship of his own accord sooner rather than later]]. Jazz acknowledges that he's right but still struggles to deal with her anger towards him.

* InspectorJavert: Rudy is absolutely dedicated to getting Jazz deported for her smuggling activity, almost to the point of distraction, but he also knows that he needs evidence and she's very good about covering her tracks. [[spoiler: And when he ''does'' catch her red-handed, Administrator Ngugi gives Jazz a pass, much to Rudy's confused anger.]]

* HideYourChildren: There are explicitly no children under twelve living on Artemis, as it is believed that the low gravity could impact the development of children younger than that. Pregnant women are even expected to travel back to Earth so that the baby can gestate normally. Jazz moved to the moon when she was six back when the laws were looser, has never been back to Earth since, and doubts she'd even be able to function in Earth's gravity after so long in space.

* EternalProhibition: Tobacco is illegal on Artemis, as it's a fire hazard (and fires in a city with a pure-oxygen atmosphere are a Very Bad Thing). Jazz smuggles it in anyway. Nastier drugs like cocaine and heroin don't exist on Artemis at all, as Jazz controls virtually all of the smuggling on the colony and refuses to import them.

* DisasterDominoes: A good chunk of the last fifty pages of the book is Jazz actively trying to undo the damage caused when she sets one off through her second act of sabotage.

** Lene Landvik is a completely straight example. Trond's original reason for moving to the moon in the first place was to give his daughter the ability to walk again after a car accident left her paralyzed.
** Jazz has a decidedly more complicated relationship with her father than Lene does, but Ammar still cares deeply about her, despite the history of broken trust and disappointment. [[spoiler:This becomes clear to Jazz when Ammar spends an excessive amount of time on welding together the capsule that is meant to protect Jazz from dying in vacuum on her mission to destroy the Sanchez smelters. He's widely considered to be the best welder on Artemis and could probably have done it right in a reasonable amount of time, but this is his daughter's life; he's not going to risk shoddy workmanship.]]
*** [[spoiler: Note that despite some growing pains in her teenage years, by the present day, Jazz is equally devoted to her father--while her initial motivation seems to be petty greed (with a stated goal of exactly 416,922 slugs -- roughly sixty-seven thousand dollars), it turns out Jazz has been saving that money for years to rebuild a workshop of her father's that she inadvertently destroyed in a fit of teenage rebellion]].

* CowboyCop: Rudy manages to be also a ByTheBookCop, sometimes in the same scene. His EstablishingCharacterMoment shows him pummeling a wife beater in the exact same spots he'd hit his wife before deporting him.

* CoverIdentityAnomaly: [[spoiler:Jazz disguises herself in a headscarf and face covering while she takes the train to Tranquility. When authorities review security footage later, they notice that she bows to another passenger at one point... but a devout Muslim would only ever bow to Allah.]]

* ByTheBookCop: Rudy manages to be also a CowboyCop, sometimes in the same scene.

* ChekhovsArmory: ''Everything'' that is introduced at some point of the novel ultimately assumes more significance. Well except [[spoiler: the condom. That one is just a joke and]] never gets used.

* BrokenPedestal: Jazz initially had a high opinion of Administrator Fidelis Ngugi. That is, until she turns out be involved in the shady dealings going on in the background and serving her own agenda.

-->'''Jazz''': This isn't a new thing. New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Moscow, Rome, Mexico City--they all went through hell to control their mob infestations. And those are the success stories. Big chunks of South America are still under cartel control.

* AllTheGoodMenAreGay: Downplayed. Jazz is still rankled that her first serious boyfriend, Tylar, turned out to be gay. She's especially angry that [[spoiler: Dale, who's a pretty stand up guy himself otherwise]] helped Tyler realize this. But Jazz finds an acceptable guy who isn't gay at the end.

''Artemis'' is the second novel by Creator/AndyWeir in 2017.