Andy Weir was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is also a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects like relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. The Martian is his first novel.
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In A Lunar City, A Mission Gone Awry
The moon is an unforgiving landscape, making life there no walk in the park.
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How Andy Weir Engineered A Lunar City In ‘Artemis’
In his new novel, author Andy Weir creates a sprawling moon metropolis—just to see if he could break it apart with lunar felony.
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Andy Weir: ‘The Martian’
Andy Weir’s novel of Mars survival mixes science fact and fiction.
