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Excellent sci-fi. Well-written to be digestible, brilliantly thought out and features a witty protagonist. The story keeps you on the edge of your seat while feeling entirely natural, and gives a good understanding of the basic science underlying everything without burying the reader in the nitty-gritty technical details. Excellent book, and one of the ones that will stick on my shelf. ( ) From the description of this book, it might seem like a short story, but it isn't. Andy Weir puts together a great story that reminded me of Martin Caidin's Marooned which was also made into a movie. The interesting thing is how he uses the protagonist's log entries to narrate his time on Mars, and mixes it with more normal third person narration for others in the story. There's lots of science and McGyver-ist survival action, and Mark Watney (likely the first man to die on Mars) approaches most of it with a humor that will win you over. When I finished this book I decided to use Watney's figures of speech, like "dumb-assery", in a sentence at least once a week. The Martian by Andy Weir is a fabulous space ride with its story. Although the whole affair was a bit too technical for me, as I am not from a science background, But hats off to the author for the amount of detail written in the book. I have already watched the movie, but still, listening to the book was a new kind of experience. Mark Watney was the only character on which I was focused. With every page, the thrill increases and our hope rises. I was amazed with all those minute details that bound the story together to the end. It was a little bit difficult for me to understand all those hardware and software details. Still, the book successfully entertains us to the climax. Definitely, the book deserves 5 stars.
The Martian is technically a “hard science fiction” book – a subgenre of science fiction so firmly rooted in science that the story wouldn’t work without it. And certainly, Weir’s first work is science-heavy; he even mentioned in an interview that the book was an exercise in whether he could make a fictional narrative out of the scientific premise of the novel. The answer, obviously, is “yes,” and The Martian is an intriguing exercise in the way that science itself can create plot. Belongs to SeriesMark Watney (1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesEbook [Newton] (793) Heyne Allgemeine Reihe (31691) Science Fiction Book Club (1385230) Is contained inHas the adaptationAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills--and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit--he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him? No library descriptions found. |
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