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Warren Benton asked Andy Weir:

It the writing of the Martian did you run a scenario with actual martians? Or were you trying to keep it alien free?

Andy Weir Definitely alien-free. I never had any notion of extraterrestrial life being a part of the story. Not even microbes.

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