Just finished listening to this audiobook. I thought it was excellent. I downloaded it to listen to on 3 hour drive to inlaws for 4th of July weekend, and basically couldn't stop listening to it. Stayed up until 4 am listening last night.
Anyone else read or listen to it?
I googled it because I thought it would probably make an awesome movie if they did it like Gravity and I see that the movie rights have been sold to 20th Century Fox and there are negotiations for Ridley Scott to direct and Matt Damon to star in the film version.
I would highly recommend it. Its science fiction, and a little heavy on science but not really to the point where you get lost in the science or have to be an astrophysicist to understand it. Even though its science fiction, I thought it was pretty realistic (I'm not an astronaut though so I'm sure liberties were taken in the interest of storytelling).
Its more just a story about survival and the human will to survive and human nature to help other humans.
Basic no spoilers plot is the story takes place during the 3rd manned mission to Mars in the not too distant future. Bad storm causes the mission to abort, one astronaut is hit with flying debris during evacuation, lost, presumed dead, and eventually left on Mars by the rest of the crew. The story is told in first person by the astronaut through logs at first, and eventually picks up in 3rd person format back on Earth at NASA and on the spaceship returning the rest of the crew from Mars to Earth.
After googling, it also turns out its the author's first novel and he self-published it at first. I thought that was extremely cool as well.
Anyone else read or listen to it?
I googled it because I thought it would probably make an awesome movie if they did it like Gravity and I see that the movie rights have been sold to 20th Century Fox and there are negotiations for Ridley Scott to direct and Matt Damon to star in the film version.
I would highly recommend it. Its science fiction, and a little heavy on science but not really to the point where you get lost in the science or have to be an astrophysicist to understand it. Even though its science fiction, I thought it was pretty realistic (I'm not an astronaut though so I'm sure liberties were taken in the interest of storytelling).
Its more just a story about survival and the human will to survive and human nature to help other humans.
Basic no spoilers plot is the story takes place during the 3rd manned mission to Mars in the not too distant future. Bad storm causes the mission to abort, one astronaut is hit with flying debris during evacuation, lost, presumed dead, and eventually left on Mars by the rest of the crew. The story is told in first person by the astronaut through logs at first, and eventually picks up in 3rd person format back on Earth at NASA and on the spaceship returning the rest of the crew from Mars to Earth.
After googling, it also turns out its the author's first novel and he self-published it at first. I thought that was extremely cool as well.
