The Martian question

You could try reality-based survival stories, such as Krakauer's Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.

Hi Euhene. I cannot think of a book written quite like The Martian. By the way, I thought it was a great book.

A book I also liked was by Ernest Cline. The technical details come from a very different angle. A fun book to read.

Yeah, Kim Stanley Robinson is good on the technical details. He's also slow as molasses and has none of the quirky fun of The Martian.

If I were to go just on technical accuracy I'd say the original 2001. For "fun" with the "technical," The Martian is pretty much unique.

Perhaps some Niven. Protector, Tales of Known Space, Ringworld.

I don't know if these have the same technical details, but they (sort of) are tangentially related:

The Explorer by James Smythe

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach

You might give The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey (Leviathan Wakes is the first book) a try. It's definitely more fiction than science, but it's set in a more near future than other sci-fi and also takes care to try and give satisfying technical explanations for most everything going on.

Euhene wrote: "Interested in a book with the same technical details."

Try "A Fall of Moondust" by Arthur C. Clarke. I think it's pretty much forgotten nowadays but I'll always owe it a great debt of gratitude as it was the first science fiction novel I ever read and opened my eyes to a new world (indeed, a universe full of new worlds). Without giving too much away it's about the race to save a "hovercraft" full of tourists who, after an accident on the Moon's surface, are trapped below a sea of moondust.

Or perhaps, more recently, Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves" which is packed full of description of the practicalities of building and maintaining an orbital habitat to save humankind.

American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett. Closest I can describe it as something like the show LOST, but with ALOT more explanation. And it's in New Mexico. Fun read.

Anything by Alastair Reynolds has plenty of explanation in it. The most fun BY FAR is House of Suns. You won't be disappointed!

Cryptonomicon

There's one that just come out...

I've not read it yet but its said to be in the same genre - and i'll be giving it a read when it comes out in paperback

Aurora

Here's a listopia list of Hard Science Fiction. Some in here might be harder than others, but you might find what you're looking for.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

You're kidding, right?