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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.
That shit's infesting all the new movies.
Well, if they wanted a movie about a city on the moon they would have done the excellent "The Moon is a harsh mistress" instead of waiting for a new book that might or might not be good.
The crazy thing is that while it seems that after all these years they will finally adapt the aforementioned Heinlein book to the big screen (Bryan Singer to direct), they are apparently changing what is probably the best sci-fi title ever, to "Uprising"...
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If they're going to keep it accurate, they're going to have women whose breasts are larger in the lower gravity (fluid doesn't accumulate so much in the lower body) and don't have to deal with Cooper's Droop. So for once they can have big-breasted women in a sci-fi. Sub-plot: Man meets woman on the moon, they get it on, get married, then come to earth and not only do her breasts shrink and sag, but with normal G sex is too much work to be worth it, so they re-up for another tour of duty at Luna City (yes, it's a bit of a rip-off of a sci-fi story about a Lunar couple who can't wait to get back to earth, then find out it isn't what they remembered it like)..
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Yes, but I'd like to see a modern take on what technology might actually be applicable in the near future - rather than future tech envisioned in 1966. This will likely be a movie for people like me who are just as interested in the science as the science-fiction. Even good science fiction doesn't always age as well as fans sometimes pretend it does. For instance, Childhood's End, while still an interesting story, certainly has to be read with a caveat about its age in mind, not to mention the paranormal focus, of which Clarke later seemed somewhat embarrassed about.
Besides, the first Heinlein I read involved four unbelievably irritating protagonists, a flying car, and visiting the land of Oz (wtf?). Starship Troopers was decent, but nothing spectacular. I still can't figure out why everyone gushes over Heinlein. I've heard his earlier works were better, but at this point, I don't care enough to find out.
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US Primaries, all the ISIS shit, sabre rattling over the Spratly Islands and JIMMY HILL died.
Bugger that. Some dude wrote a book set somewhere other than Earth, and now he's writing ANOTHER ONE? OMGeleventyhundredandone!!!!!!
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It's sensible, it's much cheaper to get the filming equipment to the Moon instead of Mars.
Interesting. I have read over 15 Heinlein novels, and yet I did not know what you were talking about! I had to look it up and, indeed, "The Number of the Beast" is one of the few I have not read (and one of the lowest rated apparently). Starship Troopers is also not one of my favorites, still good, but I enjoy others more. So, perhaps you should give "The Moon is a harsh mistress" a try, it is the Heinlein book most people prefer (unless you are specifically into time travel / paradoxes etc in which case you could also try "The Door Into Summer").
As for Childhood's End, that is one book that greatly disappointed me compared to what I had heard about it. The politico-religious aspects of the story were very simplistic, the characters were not really developed, overall it seemed to me like some interesting ideas made into a relatively flawed book.
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I think there are a few Retief shorts where he's temporarily living on a moon. For some odd reasons, I've always enjoyed those books/shorts/novellas. They're like the Remo Williams books except they're kind of science fiction and slightly more plausible than Remo and Sinanju. I also like the bad, horrible really, acronyms.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
It'll still be worth it if he includes a moon pool a la: this xkcd.
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Andy must have had a shower epiphany.
From his Reddit AMA 2 months ago. /u/rosweldrmr asks:
Andy Weir's response: