Andy Weir

So did you catch the interview Tim had with Andy Weir? What a great story. Good guy with lots of talent comes out on top. I've poked around a bit on the internet and found some interesting stuff.

He wrote a very short story which is in the public domain called The Egg. It has generated a lot of creative work by others - plenty of cool artwork and at least two extremely good videos on YouTube.

1> The Martian is my favorite book this year. I just read The Egg and I'm amazed at how such a short story can be so thought provoking. I want to print it and give it out to strangers! I did read the interview http://blog.librarything.com/main/2014/08/interview-with-andy-weir/ and I was happy to learn he plans to write another book.

Google had Andy stop by and give a talk about a year ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfuLtjgzA8

Did you see he got hacked? Facebook, Twitter....and it all started with Comcast: http://bit.ly/1MS78Yh

Oh! And an interview he did in July: http://bit.ly/1MSviSy

And here's the full collection page of his writings:

http://www.galactanet.com/writing.html

Do read Annie's Day

In his novel The Martian, the author's talent is superseded by the pro-nuclear propaganda he inserts at every possible moment. For example, although ion drives in space vehicles operate with any form of power, be that solar, nuclear, or what-have-you, in The Martian at several points the "nuclear-powered ion drive" in his story is presented as the default option, which it is not. The novel contains many other examples of his nuclear bias. Fortunately, the movie version wisely drops all that nuclear baggage.