Abi Demina

Abi Demina asked Andy Weir:

What made you choose to alternate between 1st person and 3rd person point of view throughout the novel, and did you have any difficulties expressing something because of the choice of viewpoint you were using in at different times?

Andy Weir I was really nervous about that. I wasn't sure how people would respond. But I didn't have any choice. The Mars segments had to be first person. If they weren't, they would have read like a technical manual and been incredibly boring. Then when it came time to show the reader what's happening at NASA, I had to go omniscient. It's not like Mark can tell you what they're doing.

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Coral Davies

Coral Davies asked Andy Weir:

While I personally was very pleased when all the private and governmental corporations decided to club together to save Mark Watney, were you ever tempted to embrace the more harsher (and honestly, more believable) line that people on Earth simply said 'sorry, thats too expensive, he signed a waver expunging us of responsibility should he have a fatal accident, we can't save him'?

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Ulrich Petri

Ulrich Petri asked Andy Weir:

How much, if at all, are you involved in the screenwriting of the supposed movie and are you worried how true to your vision the movie will stay?

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