Work · Novel · 2011 (self-published serial/ebook); 2014 (Crown Publishing Group print edition)

The Martian

Andy Weir, author

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Units: 26 chapters built from 99 numbered Sol log entries plus third-person NASA and Hermes chapters

Stranded alone on Mars after his crew evacuates during a dust storm, astronaut-botanist Mark Watney logs his effort to survive on improvised science until NASA can mount a rescue.

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Novel 2011 (self-published serial/ebook); 2014 (Crown Publishing Group print edition) → Film 2015 · Direct adaptationThe MartianGoddard and Scott keep the science-first optimism and nearly every setback, cut the book's late solo ordeal, and invent an Earth epilogue the novel never wrote.83composite · editorial

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