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Sci-fi writer Andy Weir doesn't love writing

Worklife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Martian: A Serial

The Martian was a serial that I posted a chapter at a time to my website. When the Martian made it big, I did not quit my job. It was so popular, I ended up self publishing it to Amazon Kindle. And then that sold well enough that that got random house attention. Then that got like Fox's attention and that got like Ridley Scott's attention. And everything just spiraled wildly into control to this day.

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