The Martian

My rewiew

Great book! Amazing !!!

Exiting Space Exploration

This book makes you want to read more and more - exiting, brilliant....absolutely recommended!

In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl

Less than a week after the third manned mission to Mars lands on the planet's surface, a sudden dust storm forces the crew to make an emergency evacuation. When botanist/mechanical engineer Mark Watney is struck violently by flying debris and his suit torn open as he falls back into the storm, his team knows he can't have survived the instant decompression. As their ascent vehicle rises to join the ship in orbit to start the voyage home to Earth, the members of the crew, racked with guilt, mourn a friend and colleague - the first human being to die on Mars. But back down in the dust, Watney opens his eyes. The position of his body and the rapidly drying blood from his wound sealed the breach in the suit just enough for the life-support systems to be able to function. He's still alive, and able to carry himself to the relative safety of the domed habitat that had been the astronauts' home on what was to have been a mission of about a month - but for how much longer? He has no way to communicate with Earth or the ship, and the next mission to Mars won't be for several years. Dare he even hope he can find a way to survive so long, so alone, in such a hostile environment? Fortunately, Watney's years of training and background in sciences and engineering are matched by his ingenuity and sheer determination to survive. And although he doesn't know it, NASA has stumbled across evidence of his survival. Between their efforts and his own, he just *might* have a chance. Andy Weir's "The Martian" is diamond-hard science fiction that reads like tomorrow's headlines. The novel takes place in the very near future (Weir never specifies a date, but it's obviously within the next couple of decades, since scientists who worked on Pathfinder in the mid-1990s are still around), and the author's research is so extensive, his attention to detail so painstaking, that it's almost impossible to imagine that, if and when we do go to Mars, it won't be almost exactly the way Weir describes ...