Last night was weird. I knew logically that nothing bad would happen in just one night, but it was a little unnerving to know I had no life support other than heaters. My life depended on some math I’d done earlier. If I dropped a sign or added two numbers wrong, I might never wake up. The Martian” by Andy Weir This morning I finished reading “The Martian” by Andy Weir (yup, read through the night). It’s been a while since I had that much fun reading a fiction book. And considering it started as self-published book, the writing is (mostly) really well done. Without giving away too much of the story, it’s about an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when the team had to abandon the habitat and return to Earth due to a dust storm. During the evacuation, he gets hit by debris, which destroys the bio-monitor in his suit (think “Aliens”), and separates him from the group. The others can’t find him in the storm and the bio-signals indicate he’s dead. Given they have only minutes before their escape vehicle (MAV) tips over, they leave without him. The novel switches between a first-person narrative (log [...]
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