![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine that instead of Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg is the star of “Mission: Impossible.” The intellectual swashbuckler is the hero, not the plucky, comic-relief sidekick. This hypertechnical genre, deeply developed by novelists like Neal Stephenson, does something that classic thrillers do not: It puts the nerd (male and female) in the center of the action. Weir, from online serial to book to screen, has brought a little-appreciated genre into the mainstream: the nerd thriller. Writing about “ The Martian” seems to be bringing out the geekiness in your humble correspondent. Now 20th Century Fox is bringing out the movie, starring Matt Damon and a cast so full of stars that it’s like the monolith at the end of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”Īnd before you stop me to say that Keir Dullea doesn’t actually say, “My God, it’s full of stars!” in the movie, that it’s from Arthur C. ![]() People really liked it - so much so that Crown Publishing came calling. He hadn’t had any success with publishers in the past, so he started posting chapters to his website. Andy Weir started writing a book about an astronaut stranded on Mars. ![]()
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