The Martian Is Just an Incredible Survivalist Tale

The martian, of course, is just an incredible survivalist tale. And you kind of come back to that theme to a large ent in project hale mary. So there's the survivals does high light human ingenuity. It's very optimistic in its its survival. But yet, does it also higlight human's reliance on technology? All of my stories take place in an environment that will kill you without technology. In fact, when they do lose their boat technology, they all drown - except for ishmaels gess.