Marsjanin

Polish language

Published July 10, 2014 by Wydawnictwo Akurat.

ISBN:
978-83-287-0222-6
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

5 stars (4 reviews)

Marsjanin” to książkowy debiut Andy’ego Weira. Początkowo został opublikowany nakładem własnym autora, tylko w formie e-booka. Jego sukces zachęcił wydawnictwo Crown Publishers do wydania papierowej wersji, a autora do sprzedania studiu Fox praw do ekranizacji. W 2015 roku premierę miał film na podstawie powieści, z Mattem Damonem w roli głównej.

Niedaleka przyszłość. Załogowe loty na Marsa stały się faktem. NASA we współpracy z Europejską Agencją Kosmiczną wysłała już trzy misje nazwane Ares. Trzecia właśnie niedawno wylądowała na Czerwonej Planecie. Nie wszystko jednak idzie zgodnie z planem...

38 editions

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.

Lists