The Martian
Product Information, Not A Review
Quick Specs
What Stands Out
What To Check
What it is
An astronaut works the problem, then the next one, for four hundred pages, and it is gripping.
Audiobook or print
Both links are below, and for some books on this shelf that choice genuinely matters. Narrative and memoir usually win on audio. Anything you will want to flip back through — frameworks, diagrams, protocols — is better in print, and I say so on the pages where that applies rather than pretending every book works both ways.
Who should skip it
The cons above are the honest version. If two or more of them describe you, this is not your book, and there are forty-four others on this shelf.
The Short Version
Competence porn, in the best sense. The engineering is the plot.
MIKE MANNING
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