I'm a coach on my daughter's FTC Robotics team. It's an opportunity to share a love of engineering with future engineers in high school. I want to buy each kid on the team a copy of The Martian, as Mark Watney embodies the never-despair, every-problem-has-a-solution spirit the best engineers possess. Alas, the language prevents that. Any chance of a ****ed release? The Martian is too good not to share.

Andy Weir This question comes up a lot, and sadly I don't have the answer you want. Publishers do not like having multiple versions of a book out there, and they take great efforts to avoid it. Not only is it an accounting and logistical nightmare, it increases their production costs. So I don't think there'll be a soft-swearing version of it out any time soon.

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