The Martian

Epub

Portuguese language

Published July 6, 2014 by Editora Arqueiro.

ISBN:
978-85-8041-336-6
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5 stars (4 reviews)

Há seis dias, o astronauta Mark Watney se tornou a décima sétima pessoa a pisar em Marte. E, provavelmente, será a primeira a morrer no planeta vermelho.

Depois de uma forte tempestade de areia, a missão Ares 3 é abortada e a tripulação vai embora, certa de que Mark morreu em um terrível acidente.

Ao despertar, ele se vê completamente sozinho, ferido e sem ter como avisar às pessoas na Terra que está vivo. E, mesmo que conseguisse se comunicar, seus mantimentos terminariam anos antes da chegada de um possível resgate.

Ainda assim, Mark não está disposto a desistir. Munido de nada além de curiosidade e de suas habilidades de engenheiro e botânico – e um senso de humor inabalável –, ele embarca numa luta obstinada pela sobrevivência.

Para isso, será o primeiro homem a plantar batatas em Marte e, usando uma genial mistura de cálculos e fita adesiva, vai …

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A fairly realistic near-future hard #scifi story about survival on #Mars

4 stars

Probably boring if you're not interested in the technical problems involved in being stranded on Mars as those make up most of the book but for someone like me who is interested in the exploration of Mars and everything to do with space in general this is a great hard Sci-Fi story set in the near future.

The writing could be much better, I wish there was more of backstory to how Watney became a person able to survive so well in a situation like this (nothing really explains it to me) and not everything is beliveable to me but the overall concept and most of the details are solid. Wil Wheaton's narration of the audiobook edition was good but not perfect.

reviewed The Martian by Andy Weir

Fun read.

4 stars

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.

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