A high concept thriller and genre busting classic, now a major motion picture starring Matt Damon
Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.
Andy Weir's masterpiece!
*Twitter*
Watney's gallows humour and his brushes with death as he uses every
ounce of his intelligence and astronaut's training to claw his way
out of the pit will have you laughing and gasping by turns. I read
this book in a weekend. I didn't think I'd have the time to - but
Andy Weir's edge-of-the-seat storytelling didn't leave me any
choice.
*Richard Madeley, Richard and Judy Book Club*
Andy Weir's terrific 'lost in space' novel is an absolute page
turner from first to last ... Tautly-written, full of extraordinary
and fascinating detail about life in a frozen red desert so far
from home, The Martian is one of the best thrillers either of us
has read in years. Highly recommended.
*Judy Finnigan, Richard and Judy Book Club*
The best book I've read in ages. Clear your schedule before you
crack the seal. This story will take your breath away faster than a
hull breech. Smart, funny, and white-knuckle intense, The Martian
is everything you want from a novel.
*New York Times bestselling author of Wool*
Accomplished…believable but suspenseful as [Watney] battles against
the odds for survival
*The Guardian*
like Gravity meets Robinson Crusoe – utterly nail-biting and
memorable.
*FT*
A book I just couldn’t put down! It has the very rare combination
of a good, original story, interestingly real characters and
fascinating technical accuracy…reads like MacGyver meets Mysterious
Island.
*Commander of the International Space Station and author of An
Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth*
The amount of research here is astounding. We’re suckers for
well-grounded fiction, and on the technical side, The Martian is
exemplary ... witty ... funny
*SFX*
The Martian kicked my ass! Weir has crafted a relentlessly
entertaining and inventive survival thriller, a
MacGyver-trapped-on-Mars tale that feels just as real and harrowing
as the true story of Apollo 13.
*New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One*
Weir’s debut is easily the best SF novel of the year so far
*Financial Times*
An impressively geeky debut novel ... the technical details keep
the story relentlessly precise and the suspense ramped up
*Entertainment Weekly*
Strong, resilient, and gutsy. It's Robinson Crusoe on Mars, 21st
century style. Set aside a chunk of free time when you start this
one. You're going to need it because you won't want to put it
down.
*Steve Berry*
Think Apollo 13 ... on Mars! ... A saga of courage, ingenuity and
humour - and utterly convincing thanks to superb research. The best
space disaster story since Clarke's A Fall of Moondust.
*Stephen Baxter*
jaw-clenchingly gripping ... a modern-day Apollo13
*Stuff Magazine*
Brilliant…a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example
of real-science sci-fi for many years…Utterly compelling.
*Wall Street Journal*
Don’t be put off thinking this is a sci-fi book – it’s so much more
than that. Utterly brilliant.
*Bella*
One of the best thrillers I’ve read in a long time, an incredible
story about an astronaut marooned on Mars. This is no science
fiction tale: the technology is beautifully researched and based on
what is currently envisioned for a manned flight to Mars. It feels
so real it could almost be nonfiction, and yet it has the narrative
drive and power of a rocket launch. This is Apollo 13 times ten. I
could not put this book down.
*#1 New York Times bestselling author of Impact and Blasphemy*
Gripping…shapes up like Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as written by
someone brighter.
*Larry Niven, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the
Ringworld series and Lucifer’s Hammer*
The tension simply never lets up, from the first page to the last,
and at no point does the believability falter for even a second.
You can't shake the feeling that this could all really happen.
*Patrick Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Breach and
Ghost Country*
Weir has fashioned in Mark Watney one of the most appealing, funny
and resourceful characters in recent fiction ... gripping
*Huffington Post*
one of the best survival stories you’ll ever read (think Robinson
Crusoe on Mars only more extreme).
*Publishers Weekly*
Sharp, funny and thrilling, with just the right amount of
geekery.
*Kirkus*
Apollo 13-meets-Robinson-Crusoe-on-Mars, and I guess for those who
enjoyed the films Gravity or Moon, this one will be a literary
equivalent ... I was, in the end, totally won over by this book in
its celebration of how humans can deal with anything the harshness
of science and extreme environments can pose, and it kept me
reading longer than I meant to
*SFFworld.com*
one of the most thrilling and absorbing novels I have ever read
*Sfcrowsnest*
Riveting...a tightly constructed and completely believable story of
a man's ingenuity and strength in the face of seemingly
insurmountable odds.
*Booklist*
Weir combines the heart-stopping with the humorous in this
brilliant debut novel... the perfect mix of action and space
adventure.
*Library Journal (starred)*
An exciting, insightful science- based tale [that] kept me turning
the pages to see what ingenious solution our hero would concoct to
survive yet anotherimpossible dilemma
*Terry Brooks*
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