He was drawn to the classics, like Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke. Weir grew up reading his father’s science fiction collection. “I didn’t seriously think that it would happen.” “Every writer wants success, fantasizes about their stuff being made into a blockbuster movie,” Weir says humbly. He then self-published through Amazon in 2011 before it was picked up by Crown and republished in 2014. While he was working full time as a software engineer, Weir published The Martian as a serial on his website. Despite the work’s phenomenal success, the journey from book to blockbuster was unconventional, to say the least. Weir’s writing career took off with the publication of The Martian, which was adapted into the 2015 Ridley Scott–directed film starring Matt Damon. I had a wonderful Zoom chat with Andy Weir in late September about his 2021 novel, Project Hail Mary, and his upcoming visit to the Peters Township Library on November 3. His newest book, Project Hail Mary, has been optioned for a film starring Ryan Gosling. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of this first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time.
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