Fran Fisher asked Andy Weir:

Your excellent book is so intensely detailed, both with regard to all the McGiverish tinkering with everything from potatoes to communication, as well as remarkably informative about Martian weather and landscapes. Are these interests of yours? Subjects on which you continually keep up to date? Or are you simply the most amazing researcher who writes in the English language.

Andy Weir Space travel has been a lifelong interest of mine, so I had a head start. And also I did a lot of research.

First i have to say i loved the Book. I loved the sarcastic humor that Mark has and the fact that the Book is exciting yet funny. Also i really liked your short story The Egg and it was the reason i bought The Martian. I'd like to ask if you are writing on a new Book and if so is it in the same genre? Also, how did you do the research for the Book? It felt so realistic. Greetings from a big fan in Sweden.

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