Perhaps the cinema always falls short to cover the entire scope of literature (contradicting that a picture is worth a thousand words). I mean, we generally prefer the book to the movie. But in the case of Andy Weir the cinema served the cause of giving importance to his work.
Because since that Matt Damon made adoption martian and growing potatoes like big melons on the red planet, Weir's life was never the same. Who was going to tell him when he wrote his first novel in idle moments that it would become the phenomenon of the cifi thanks to Ridley Scott? Even more so when everything was channeled from the indie publication ...
Weir's stroke of luck is also a stroke of luck for the science fiction, definitely. Because once the beast is awakened, Weir's imagination spreads to all space-time vertices. The thing is, the guy also balances his plots with an exquisite taste for that documentation that also serves as a hook. Because with verisimilitude and a point of disclosure we delve into the most disturbing truths of the novel version up there ...
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Andy Weir
Sagebrush
In Artemisa the approach of the human being colonizing new spaces beyond the earth's atmosphere acquires a greater point of sophistication. It is no longer about the astronaut abandoned in a Martian station. In this case, we know our lunar satellite as a conquered space for new real estate projects of all kinds: from leisure to science.
Artemis is the first lunar city. A city only suitable for wealthy people, like Las Vegas but with a less lucrative intention, in principle. And as a city inhabited by humans, Artemis also has its organization, its rules and the human being's ambition for power and glory ...
Jazz Bashara is a criminal ... Or at least it seems. Life in Artemis, the first and only city on the Moon, is difficult if you are not a wealthy tourist or eccentric billionaire. So doing a little harmless smuggling doesn't count, does it? Especially when you have to pay debts and your job as a transporter barely pays the rent. Suddenly, Jazz sees the opportunity to change his destiny by committing a crime in exchange for a lucrative reward. And there all his problems begin, because by doing so he becomes entangled in a real conspiracy for the control of Artemis that forces him to put his own life in danger ...
Hail Mary Project
You never tire of getting close to the prototype of the Modern Odyssey. Journeys into the unknown where the unknown seas are now dark cosmos and the Odysseus types of diving suits who face all known vectors of time and space to search each new star or planet for God or at least another type of life that can give some answer to the doubts of infinity in the face of our expired condition.
Ryland Grace is the only survivor on a desperate mission. It is the last chance and if it fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Of course, at the moment, he doesn't know. He cannot even remember his own name, much less the nature of his mission or how to carry it out.
All he knows is that he has been in an induced coma for a long, long time. He has just awakened and is millions of kilometers from his home, with no other company than two corpses. Her crewmates dead, and as her memories confusedly recover, Grace realizes she faces an impossible mission. Traveling through space in a small ship, it is up to him to end a threat of extinction for our species.
With hardly any time and with the closest human being light years away, he will have to achieve it being completely alone. Or not? Hail Mary Project, an irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine, it is a story of discovery, speculation and survival at the height of El marciano, which takes us to places we never dreamed of reaching.
El marciano
One of those works that give you goosebumps for its visus of haunting the truth of what it could be. It is not that we look at great metaphysical approaches but rather at the notion of the human being faced with the most abysmal loneliness in what seems like a metaphor of the little prince standing on his planet.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now he is sure that he will be the first man to die there. The crew of the ship in which he was traveling is forced to evacuate the planet because of a dust storm, leaving Mark behind after leaving him for dead. But he is alive, and trapped millions of miles from any human being, unable to send signals to Earth.
Anyway, if he managed to establish a connection, he would die long before the rescue came. However, Mark does not give up; Armed with your wit, skills and botanical knowledge, you will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Luckily, a sense of humor will prove to be your greatest source of strength. Stubborn to stay alive, he hatches an absolutely insane plan to contact NASA.
