by Andy Weir
Publisher: Broadway Books
Publication Date: August 28, 2014
In a near future when humans have already traveled to Mars and back, the crew of the Ares 3 recently landed on Mars. When a storm interferes with their mission, they are forced to abort and return to Earth. However, struggling to make it back to their ship, Mark Watney is hit and knocked out. This forces the crew, thinking he is dead, to leave the planet with Mark still on it. But Mark did not die in the storm, making him the only human on mars with no means of communication, little food, and a small tent trying to survive on his own.
THE MARTIAN is one of my favorite books. We get a botanist/mechanical engineer as the protagonist trying to science his way to survival, who knows he may never see another human again. The book is a constant battle of “Man vs. Nature”, where whenever Mark finally gets a bit of good luck, something almost always eventually goes wrong. We are greeted with explanations for many of Mark's scientific solutions to problems he encounters, going into enough detail that it makes sense, but not too much detail that it makes the story confusing.
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