From the Bookshelf of Baltimore County Public Library Summer Reading BCPL SRC …

[close] Is this a good book? Just consider its history: self-published ebook, to the most popular sci-fi book on Amazon, then picked up by a print publisher and a Hollywood studio in the same week. The movie arrives October 2, 2015.

"Apollo 13 meets Castaway," as one Goodreads reviewer put it, only begins to tell the story. While Weir keeps his descriptions of the science at a pretty high level, he has worked it all out behind the scenes, with only a few minor concessions to "future technology,' like more flexible space suits. He even claims to have actual dates worked out for all the events in the story, and wrote custom orbital dynamics software to work out the timelines for the space travel. A geek after my own heart.