Jan 17, 2019
New year, new look, new planet, who dis? Join Luke & James as
they kick off 2019 on Mars with Andy Weir’s hard SciFi
adventure-survival novel, THE MARTIAN. Mark Watney has quickly
become a classic character, but what made him so compelling? Does
the novel succeed in holding reader interest with all that math and
science?
Topics: New logo discussion, what it was like growing up on the
Space Coast of Florida, Andy Weir’s background & relationship with
Ready Player One author Ernest Cline, the publication history for
the novel, the research necessary to achieve that high-level of
verisimilitude, the theme of the triumph of the human spirit, hard
SciFi as a genre, Weir’s prose and writing style, the multiple POV
shifts, the one MAJOR scientific inaccuracy in the novel, the
Trolley Problem, and what food they would choose to live off of for
years.
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