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EP 30 How Andy Weir went from being an unknown sci-fi writer to a Matt Damon starring Hollywood blockbuster

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Chichen Loon - The Dark Forest Problem

"I don't write very dark stuff. I tend to write pretty kind of like light-hearted stuff," he said. "But it's one of those things where it's like why fight over resources when you currently have an infinite amount of them?" He added that the only reason anybody would build a city on the moon is for business, and so they can make money. The author has always had a problem with alien invasion science fiction because all the answers fall flat for him.

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