You can not select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
20 lines
1020 B
20 lines
1020 B
6 years ago
|
+++
|
||
|
|
title = "The Martian - Andy Weir"
|
||
|
|
date = 2015-07-18
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
category = "review"
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
[taxonomies]
|
||
|
|
tags = ["books", "en-au", "andy weir"]
|
||
|
|
+++
|
||
|
|
{{ stars(stars=5) }}
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Initial warning: I'm a science nerd. Not that I'm good at science, but I really enjoy reading about science: Tell me how to split an atom and I get a boner; show me a path around the space with two slingshots effect and I jizz in my pants.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
That's why I liked this book this much. It is kinda like the movie "The Core", but without the bullshit plot and materials and whatnot.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
So it seemed, at first, that the book was only about one guy lost in Mars and his attempts to survive. But the book encompasses a lot more than that. Without giving too much spoilers here, it explores a bit of science, how the space companies work, how much work it takes to launch a single rocket and so on.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
As I mentioned, there is a *lot* of science in the book: How create water, how to create hydrogen, chemical reactions...
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
In the end, it is a really good book if you're a nerd.
|