The Martian
I’ll be honest here – I wrote THE MARTIAN with the idea that it would appeal to a teeny, tiny niche of hardcore science dorks. I had no idea it would gain mainstream appeal. It’s basically a long series of high school algebra word problems that ended up becoming a huge hit. I still don’t know what I did right. But hey, I’m glad it happened.
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Another thing you did right - you showed throughout the book how seemingly impossible to solve situations do become possible, if you work on it like your life depends on it…