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Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon (huffingtonpost.com)
MarkWhittington writes: Readers wondering where Andy Weir, whose book The Martian featured a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars, will take us next need wonder no longer. According to a story in the Huffington Post, Weir's next novel will feature a woman living in a city on the moon. The novel is due to be out in late 2016 or early 2017.
Weir, naturally, is cagey about plot details. But it's likely he will pay as strict attention to the science in his new story as he did in The Martian. There's no word yet about possible movie deal, but considering the success of The Martian, it's a safe bet someone will want to bring Weir's lunar adventure to the big screen.
Weir, naturally, is cagey about plot details. But it's likely he will pay as strict attention to the science in his new story as he did in The Martian. There's no word yet about possible movie deal, but considering the success of The Martian, it's a safe bet someone will want to bring Weir's lunar adventure to the big screen.
We already got our fill of stronk women mary sues from star wars. This hack doesn't need any more attention.
If it's like the Martian story, it has to begin with a bullshit wind storm that can't happen, yet must happen for the entire rest of the story to happen.
So there will be some massive WIND STORM on the moon and the entire thing will get blown out of Earth's orbit and go careening across space encountering shaded of beige, gray, and brown, and lots of hostile aliens. Oh wait. That's been done.
Um
Well fuck it all Andy, I guess you are out of luck. How about a book about dryer lint? I bet you can MacGuyver the shit out if it.
I don't hate The Martian. But the whole storm sequence was utter crap and ONLY happened because it had to or else there was no story. And that's just bullshit, It's as dump as BOOM dinosaurs in Central Park, chaos ensues! WILL THEY MAKE IT TO THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN TIME!? And plot twist, the dinos swim and fly so it's all bullshit. But since this cannot happen, the whole story is bullshit. If you have to base your story on that, fix it. Andy apparently had the brains to science the shit out of his story, why didn't he FIX the damn beginning to make sense? Come on.
Sig for hire.