Reading this book and also listening to it are completely different experiences – I urge you to try both! If you’re new to Science Fiction or you often find it overwhelming, this exhilarating, clever and surprisingly heart-felt novel might deliver everything you want. It has high stakes suspense, scientific problem solving, sharp humour (from the moment it opens, despite the incredibly stressful situation the character finds himself in!) and at it’s core – an unforgettable emotional pull.

The pace of this book is relentless, and listening to it on Audio brings that alive so much more. But at the same time characterisation and action is not sacrificed – the characters are built carefully, to make you care. The action is prolonged and delivered in such a way that you can’t help but feel the tension and creativity, softened only by the humour.

Big scientific ideas and theories are balanced well with a warmth and optimism that is not usually so well defined in Sci-Fi, delivering this as an example of the very best in this genre – a spectacular read.

About the Book

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?

About The Author

Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.

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