Harry Brake
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Andy Weir:
Some points during the text, I felt overwhelmed with the details of Science, Biology, and the chemical reactions needed for simple survival. Yet, it subsided and all turned out perfect, riding it out as a reader it "jelled." Did you ever feel that too much detail in those areas would lose some readers if they did not come back from that particular background?
Andy Weir
Yes, that was a constant concern. So I tried to tell the reader just enough for them to understand the problem and Mark's solution. It was a delicate balance.
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Andy
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Andy Weir:
Early in the novel, Mark reflects on his student days, poking fun at what he calls the hippies studying botany, yet he recognizes he's now doing what they were obsessed with, but for quite different reasons. Would you please talk a bit about how Mark's reflection reveals things about how we imagine technology and ecology together?
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