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Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

The Andy Weir Production Function

Andy Weir: I happened upon a combination of things that worked well together without doing the proper experimentation to find it in advance. He says he didn't realize how much people would end up rooting for this poor guy who stranded on Mars. "I was doing it as sort of a self insertion, what would I do if I were on Mars? And other people read it as like, the world must help him"

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