![]() ![]() Weir was then approached by a literary agent and sold the rights of the book to Crown Publishing Group. First sold for 99 cents, the novel made it to the Kindle bestsellers list. Weir originally published The Martian as a free serial on his website, before making it available on Kindle. Andy Weir personally created software to calculate the ship's arrival times (on Earth and on Mars) down to the exact minute in his novel. He was a computer programmer, but with his success as an author has left programming in order to focus more on writing. He even wrote his own program in order to predict the best launch dates and the orbit distances between Earth and Mars. ![]() Weir wrote The Martian to be as scientifically accurate as possible and his writing included extensive research into orbital mechanics, conditions on Mars, the history of manned spaceflight, and botany. Campbell Award for "Best New Writer" in 2016. His first work to gain significant attention was " The Egg", a short story that has been adapted into a number of YouTube videos and a one-act play. Weir began writing science fiction in his 20s and published work on his website for years. ![]()
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