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#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

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1464 of 1541 people found the following review helpful. 4.7573214851 StarsBy BobI'm a hard-science fan and would rather read hard sc-fi than almost anything. I love stories and movies about , 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 () and Best Actor ().Winner of the 2015 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. 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?

.com 8 Tips for Surviving on Mars from Andy Weir So you want to live on Mars. Perhaps it’s the rugged terrain, beautiful scenery, or vast natural landscape that appeals to you. Or maybe you’re just a lunatic who wants to survive in a lifeless barren wasteland. Whatever your reasons, there are a few things you should know: 1: You’re going to need a pressure vessel. Mars’s atmospheric pressure is less than one percent of Earth’s. So basically, it’s nothing. Being on the surface of Mars is almost the same as being in deep space. You better bring a nice, sturdy container to hold air in. By the way, this will be your home forever. So try to make it as big as you can. 2: You’re going to need oxygen. You probably plan to breathe during your stay, so you’ll need to have something in that pressure vessel. Fortunately, you can get this from Mars itself. The atmosphere is very thin, but it is present and it’s almost entirely carbon dioxide. There are lots of ways to strip the carbon off carbon dioxide and liberate the oxygen. You could have complex mechanical oxygenators or you could just grow some plants. 3: You’re going to need radiation shielding. Earth’s liquid core gives it a magnetic field that protects us from most of the nasty crap the sun pukes out at us. Mars has no such luxury. All kinds of solar radiation gets to the surface. Unless you’re a fan of cancer, you’re going to want your accommodations to be radiation-shielded. The easiest way to do that is to bury your base in Martian sand and rocks. They’re not exactly in short supply, so you can just make the pile deeper and deeper until it’s blocking enough. 4: You’re going to need water. Again, Mars provides. The Curiosity probe recently discovered that Martian soil has quite a lot of ice in it. About 35 liters per cubic meter. All you need to do is scoop it up, heat it, and strain out the water. Once you have a good supply, a simple distillery will allow you to reuse it over and over. 5: You’re going to need food. Just eat . They taste like chicken. 6: Oh, come on. All right, all right. Food is the one thing you need that can’t be found in abundance on Mars. You’ll have to grow it yourself. But you’re in luck, because Mars is actually a decent place for a greenhouse. The day/night cycle is almost identical to Earth’s, which Earth plants evolved to optimize for. And the total solar energy hitting the surface is enough for their needs. But you can’t just grow plants on the freezing, near-vacuum surface. You’ll need a pressure container for them as well. And that one might have to be pretty big. Just think of how much food you eat in a year and imagine how much space it takes to grow it. Hope you like potatoes. They’re the best calorie yield per land area. 7: You’re going to need energy. However you set things up, it won’t be a self-contained system. Among other things, you’ll need to deal with heating your home and greenhouse. Mars’s average daily temperature is -50C (-58F), so it’ll be a continual energy drain to keep warm. Not to mention the other life support systems, most notably your oxygenator. And if you’re thinking your greenhouse will keep the atmosphere in balance, think again. A biosphere is far too risky on this scale. 8: You’re going to need a reason to be there. Why go out of your way to risk your life? Do you want to study the planet itself? Start your own civilization? Exploit local resources for profit? Make a base with a big death ray so you can address the UN while wearing an ominous mask and demand ransom? Whatever your goal is, you better have it pretty well defined, and you better really mean it. Because in the end, Mars is a harsh, dangerous place and if something goes wrong you’ll have no hope of rescue. Whatever your reason is, it better be worth it.

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