Note: Alternate-Cover Edition for this ASIN can be found here Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could…
This is the first sci-fi book I read, enjoyed it thoroughly!
Mark Watney is a real bad-ass problem solver. It was so “easy” for him to survive on Mars. If I were there, I would have been dead within a minute. We take so many things for granted, but on Mars, each little thing really matters a lot. It does on earth too, but we don’t realize it.
And the most important thing is —
“But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true.”
