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Book Review of The Martian

The Martian
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An excellent near-future science fiction novel, and can be thoroughly enjoyed even if you don't want to follow all the math yourself. Weir created a great narrator in Mark Watney and threw a wonderfully awful list of problems at him. You could really believe in this scenario, there's no FTL travel, teleportation, or other hand-wavium involved.