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The Martian Online fupki [Download] The Martian Online [fupki.ebook] The Martian Pdf Free Andy Weir *Download PDF | ePub | DOC | audiobook | ebooks Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #329570 in Books 2014-06-03Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, UnabridgedOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 6.75 x .50 x 5.25l, Running time: 11 HoursBinding: MP3 CD | File size: 57.Mb Andy Weir : The Martian before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Martian: 1464 of 1541 people found the following review helpful. 4.7573214851 StarsBy BobI'm a hard-science science fiction fan and would rather read hard sc-fi than almost anything. I love stories and movies about Mars, and I'm a fan of survival, castaway, and man-against-the elements stories. I loved Robinson Crusoe, so it should not surprise you that I loved the movie, Robinson Crusoe on Mars. I realize it's not Academy Award material, but to me, it's everything I want it to be, as was this book, The Martian.The main character, Watney, presumed dead, is accidentally left by his crew mates when an intense Martian dust storm forces them to abort their mission. What follows for part of the book is a logbook style narrative that describes in great technical detail Watney's efforts to extend his life until the next scheduled mission arrives in 4 years. After reading just the first 20% of the book (my Kindle has no page numbers) one can't help but be impressed by the author's depth of knowledge in this regard. In fact, the entire book is an astronaut's primer on extraterrestrial and deep space survival and rescue.The Martian isn't without its typos and editorial glitches, and I'm not sure if this was a result of a bad Kindle conversion or just a shortsighted editor. For me, though, typos and editing issues paled in comparison to the snowballing storyline, which I gladly admit is not for everyone.This is not a touchy-feely book about love, romance or relationships. There is no overpowering angle between characters. No good guys in white hats and bad guys in black hats. There's no room for cliches. It's all very business like and scientific. So, if you're looking for Twilight in Space. Or Fifty Shades of Mars. Or Tom Hanks making himself a friend by drawing a face on a soccer ball, you'll probably want to skip this one. This book is simply about the mission, and the cold reality of working hard to turn a wrong into a right.Another thing you won't find in this book is a lot of heartfelt reminiscing or reflection. There are no flashbacks of our main character fishing with Dad at the old water hole, or him riding his first bicycle without training wheels. This is a book about a guy with a keen intellect surviving on a hostile planet and doing so by making the most out of a given set of resources.About a third of the way through the book, the author adds third person narratives from mission control and the Hermes space craft, the latter manned by the crew that left our hero behind -- and make no mistake, hero is the operative word. Again, we don't follow our mission control cast of characters back too their respective homes and meet their wives and husbands and get served up cliche insights into their innermost thoughts. Blech! I hate those stories! Which doesn't mean these characters are cookie cutter or superficial. On the contrary, I found the characters sufficiently individuated and interesting.I highly recommend this book to people who are into reading hard sci-fi of the not-too-distant future, sci-fi without blasters and ray guns or 9' tall aliens that bleed acid. (Btw, I like those stories, too, but good ones are hard to find.)Somebody did their homework on this one -- and that's what stands out above all else.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Andy Weir’s fantastic piece of workBy CustomerAndy Weir’s fantastic piece of work, The Martian, is an exciting tale that will grab almost any audience from the start. However, keeping his audience engaged throughout the duration of the novel will be more determined by the reader’s love of science and mathematics. Andy Weir worked as a computer programmer for much of his life before writing The Martian. His knowledge and love of science and numbers certainly translates into his novel. The Martian is full of equations used to assist in the survival of the main character in the novel, Mark Watney. If one can get past, or maybe even enjoy, the detailed analysis of how Mark works to survive on another planet, the story line of this novel and emotions portrayed are both captivating and intriguing. The Martian takes place largely on the planet Mars after Mark Watney, a botanist and astronaut, is left stranded there without his team, without communication, and without a way home. Mark is a part of manned mission to Mars, called Ares 3. After only a few short days, a terrible storm forces the team to evacuate. During the storm, Mark is hit by a piece of flying debris which his team assumes has killed him, so they proceed to leave without him. However, his team could not have been more wrong, and the novel begins with Mark realizing that he is now injured and stuck on a hostile planet…alone. Despite his predicament, Mark picks himself up and decides that he will not accept failure. Rather, he will find a way to survive on this crazy planet for the next several years until, hopefully, NASA sends the next team on Ares 3. To complete this task, he must somehow develop communication with earth, create water, and ration and grow enough food to keep him alive for the next four years. Since Mark was the botanist on the team, he quickly gets to work developing a plan, but not without being met with countless obstacles along the way. He begins taking exploratory trips across Mars in rovers, battles storms, blows up his “home” on Mars (the HAB), develops a means of communication with Earth, loses communication again, and (SPOILER ALERT!) eventually finds his way back to his team. Throughout the Novel, Weir employs the use of science and mathematics to create a semi-realistic representation of what it might take in order to survive on another planet. These calculations and the thought-processes that Mark goes through to solve problems are often very long. As someone who does not come from a science background, I found these areas of the text to be very arduous and often times unenjoyable. At the same time, I found it exceptional that Weir was able to incorporate these elements to make something so impossible actually seem realistic. It makes the reader second guess whether or not the story was true! Weir’s techniques employed in this novel, though laborious to get through at times, are effective and exhibit and extreme amount of talent. In addition to the mathematics, his use of language creates a level of severity in his tone, despite the fact that his main character, Mark, is extremely sarcastic and funny. His ability to balance reality, fiction, humor, and yet still express the exasperated tone of the situation is spectacular. Weir is certainly a talented author and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for an intriguing piece of fiction.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A great, great adventure storyBy Dan BergerI read this after having seen the movie, and still enjoyed it. It’s a fine work: a combination of Apollo 13, Robinson Crusoe and MacGyver.A Mars mission goes awry during a catastrophic sandstorm, and a crew of five is forced to take off, believing the sixth, Mark Watney, is dead. He survives, but it’s too late. He’s isolated at the Mars base with no way to let anyone know he’s alive. He’s got food, but long before the next mission arrives - at a distant site - he’ll have starved to death. Water will also become an issue.How Watney, a botanist and the mission’s all-purpose-repair guy, copes is fascinating. He works through every problem methodically, bringing to bear all of his scientific and astronaut training, quantifying every gram of every element or substance at his disposal. He must constantly improvise, using what he has at hand after considering whether he can afford to use it for this purpose when it was intended for another.He keeps a journal, which is what we’re reading, meeting obstacle after obstacle with sardonic humor as he tries to stay alive as the only human on Mars. This is a great, great adventure story. Twentieth Century Fox’s motion picture based on The Martian won 2 Golden Globe awards-- Best Director (Ridley Scott) and Best Actor (Matt Damon).Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Best Science FictionSix 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.
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