Amanda Bridgeman asked Andy Weir:

Hi Andy, I loved your book. I'm intrigued about the level of research you must have done for it. I see from your website that you were naturally interested in space exploration before you wrote the book, but I'm keen to understand how you went about getting that level of detail in. Did you have any contacts inside the space exploration industry that you could bounce plot ideas off and figure out solutions with?

Andy Weir No contacts at all. I just did lots and lots of research and math.

First, while writing this or editing it, did you ever consider chopping out viewpoints that are external to "the Martian"? I often felt that the exposition on what was actually going on to get this guy rescued undercut the sense of isolation and the long odds of rescue.

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