The Martian by Andy Weir It got a cool cover. Then it got a movie cover (blech, movie tie-in covers). But before all that, this funny, adventurous novel about an astronaut-botanist stuck on Mars had kind of a boring cover. It was just—Mars. Which, for previously self-published author and NASA enthusiast Weir, was probably really exciting. But I didn’t know how exciting Mars could be until after I read Weir’s book. When I first looked at the cover, it said to me, “Probably about an alien war.” I read it anyway because my big sister told me to and I have to do what she says. If you passed The
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