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No cover — Martian (2020, Penguin Random House)

English language

Published Jan. 26, 2020 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:: 978-1-4735-8232-3

(1 review)

The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was his debut novel under his own name. It was originally self-published in 2011; Crown Publishing purchased the rights and re-released it in 2014. The story follows an American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in 2035 and must improvise in order to survive.

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elizabeth@books.superawesomecorp.space reviewed The Martian by Andy Weir

No time for feelings; gotta survive

4 stars

Content warning Minor spoilers about character-building

The Martian still rocks. It has everything that I love in those YouTube video where they walk you through their process of making a cool new machine (https://youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE&feature=share).

A few times throughout the book, Mark’s plans went out the airlock and he expresses his frustration and hopelessness to the log. Then in the next log, he’s back to working the problem. He decides to survive “off camera” and I think that we missed an essential part of his character.

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