Hardcover
Romanian language
Published July 6, 2015 by Paladin.
Membrii echipajului Ares 3 ajung pe Marte pentru o misiune programată să dureze două luni, dar o furtună puternică le dă planurile peste cap și sunt nevoiți să părăsească planeta după doar câteva zile. Însă numai cinci dintre cei șase membri ai echipajului se vor lansa spre Pământ. Mark Watney, pe care ceilalți îl cred mort, rămâne singur, cu resurse limitate de apă și de hrană. Și astfel pornește într-o uimitoare cursă pentru supraviețuire, reușind să facă ceea ce nimeni până atunci nu ar fi crezut că este posibil pe o planetă fără viață. Inteligența și umorul, stăpânirea de sine și ingeniozitatea îl vor ajuta pe Watney să facă față rând pe rând problemelor aparent insurmontabile. Dar va reuși el să se întoarcă teafăr pe Pământ? Și de unde îi poate veni salvarea?
I have no idea why I didn’t read this book earlier. It is a fantastic story that kept me reading until I was done (a day and a half!).
I’ve always wanted to take a trip into space, but certainly not if it ends up like Mark’s.
I went in with the understanding this was a book about a bunch of whatif science problems so enjoyed it. The author did a good job of keeping things moving forward without getting too bogged down in detail. The structure of the story meant the protagonist was maybe the most upbeat superhuman I’ve met so it there was no emotional stakes but that was by design.
Content warning Minor spoilers about character-building
The Martian still rocks. It has everything that I love in those YouTube video where they walk you through their process of making a cool new machine (youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE&feature=share).
A few times throughout the book, Mark’s plans went out the airlock and he expresses his frustration and hopelessness to the log. Then in the next log, he’s back to working the problem. He decides to survive “off camera” and I think that we missed an essential part of his character.
And probably at least semi realistic? Didn't like it as much as Project Hail Mary by the same author. This sorta read as a sequence of "oh crap, another thing went wrong" problems, followed by solutions. I'm certain this is realistic - or even still overly optimistic, given what they were surviving through - but kinda made for an overly long, repetitive narrative. I suspect this is part of why they cut some of these out of the movie (and to save time, but also it got repetitive). Nevertheless, a fun read if you enjoy sci-fi that sticks close to contemporary science.
Divertido e nerdy, adorei!
Really intriguing tech short story. Read it twice.
