Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
Conversations with Tyler
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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