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The Martian (Weir novel)

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The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. [1]

89 relations: A Fall of Moondust, Acidalia Planitia, Amazing Stories, Amazon (company), Amazon Kindle, Andy Weir, Arabia Terra, Arthur C. Clarke, Associated Press, Attitude control, Audible (store), Audie Award, Audiobook, Booster (rocketry), Botany, Bush tomato, Center for American Progress, China National Space Administration, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Computer science, Crown Publishing Group, Debut novel, Delta IV Heavy, Drew Goddard, E-book, E. L. James, Effect of spaceflight on the human body, Engineer, Entertainment Weekly, Exploration Flight Test 1, Facebook, German Aerospace Center, Gravity assist, Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, HuffPost, Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Human mission to Mars, Hydrazine, Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Kate Mara, Kirkus Reviews, Kristen Wiig, Locus (magazine), Manned Maneuvering Unit, Mars, Mars Pathfinder, ..., Matt Damon, Michael Peña, Morse code, MTV News, NASA, No Man Friday, Nora Roberts, Orion (spacecraft), Oxyliquit, Particle physics, PDF, PhytoKeys, Potato, Publishers Weekly, R. C. Bray, Reality, Ridley Scott, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Robinsonade, Schiaparelli (Martian crater), Science fiction, Science Friday, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Seiun Award, Self-publishing, Skepticality, Sojourner (rover), Sol (Day on Mars), Solanum, The Hollywood Reporter, The Martian (film), The Moon Is Hell!, The New York Times, The New York Times Best Seller list, The Wall Street Journal, Time (magazine), USA Today, Variety (magazine). Expand index (39 more) »

A Fall of Moondust

A Fall of Moondust is a hard science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961.

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Acidalia Planitia

Acidalia Planitia is a plain on Mars.

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Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. The hardware platform, developed by Amazon subsidiary Lab126, began as a single device and now comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms. All Kindle devices integrate with Kindle Store content, and as of March 2018, the store has over six million e-books available in the United States.. Retrieved March 30, 2018.

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Andy Weir

Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist whose debut novel, The Martian, was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott in 2015.

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Arabia Terra

Arabia Terra is a large upland region in the north of Mars that lies mostly in the Arabia quadrangle, but a small part is in the Mare Acidalium quadrangle.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Attitude control

Attitude control is controlling the orientation of an object with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity like the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.

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Audible (store)

Audible is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming on the Internet.

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Audie Award

An Audie Award (or Audie), bestowed annually in the United States, recognizes outstanding audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read.

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Booster (rocketry)

A booster rocket (or engine) is either the first stage of a multistage launch vehicle, or else a shorter-burning rocket used in parallel with longer-burning sustainer rockets to augment the space vehicle's takeoff thrust and payload capability.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bush tomato

The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade (Solanum) species native to the more arid parts of Australia.

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Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization.

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China National Space Administration

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is the national space agency of China.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor (born 10 July 1977) is a British actor.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Crown Publishing Group

The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Random House that publishes across several categories including fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography and memoir, cooking, health, business, and lifestyle.

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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Delta IV Heavy

The Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) is an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle, the largest type of the Delta IV family, and is the world's second highest-capacity rocket in operation, with a payload capacity half of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.

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Drew Goddard

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer.

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E-book

An electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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E. L. James

Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author.

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Effect of spaceflight on the human body

Humans venturing into the environment of space can have negative effects on the body.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Exploration Flight Test 1

Exploration Flight Test 1 or EFT-1 (previously known as Orion Flight Test 1 or OFT-1) was the first test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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German Aerospace Center

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.), abbreviated DLR, is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Gravity assist

In orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering, a gravitational slingshot, gravity assist maneuver, or swing-by is the use of the relative movement (e.g. orbit around the Sun) and gravity of a planet or other astronomical object to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically to save propellant and reduce expense.

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Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian

Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey As Told by Christian, also referred to as Grey, is a 2015 erotic romance by British author E. L. James.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year.

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Human mission to Mars

A human mission to Mars has been the subject of science fiction, aerospace engineering, and scientific proposals since the 19th century.

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Hydrazine

Hydrazine is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula (also written), called diamidogen, archaically.

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Jeff Daniels

Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright whose career includes roles in films, stage productions and on television, for which he has won an Emmy Award and received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Tony Award nominations.

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Jessica Chastain

Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and film producer.

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John W. Campbell

John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.

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John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is an award given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous calendar years.

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Kate Mara

Kate Rooney Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American actress.

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Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews (or Kirkus Media) is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980).

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Kristen Wiig

Kristen Carroll Wiig (born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Manned Maneuvering Unit

The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) is an astronaut propulsion unit that was used by NASA on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Mars Pathfinder

Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder) is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997.

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Matt Damon

Matthew Paige Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter.

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Michael Peña

Michael Anthony Peña (born January 13, 1976) is an American actor and musician.

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Morse code

Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.

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MTV News

MTV News is the news production division of MTV.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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No Man Friday

No Man Friday (also known in the United States as First on Mars) is a British science fiction novel by Rex Gordon (Stanley Bennett Hough) published in 1956.

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Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of more than 225 romance novels.

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Orion (spacecraft)

The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) is an American interplanetary spacecraft intended to carry a crew of four astronauts to destinations at or beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

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Oxyliquit

An Oxyliquit, also called liquid air explosive or liquid oxygen explosive, is an explosive material which is a mixture of liquid oxygen (LOX) with a suitable fuel, such as carbon (as lampblack), or an organic chemical (e.g. a mixture of soot and naphthalene), wood meal, or aluminium powder or sponge.

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Particle physics

Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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PhytoKeys

PhytoKeys is a peer-reviewed, open-access online and print botanical journal.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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R. C. Bray

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Reality

Reality is all of physical existence, as opposed to that which is merely imaginary.

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.

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Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 independently made American Technicolor science fiction film in Techniscope, produced by Aubrey Schenck, directed by Byron Haskin, that stars Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, and Adam West.

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Robinsonade

Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

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Schiaparelli (Martian crater)

Schiaparelli is an impact crater on Mars, located near the planet's equator at latitude 3° south and longitude 344° in the Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Friday

Science Friday (known as SciFri for short) is a weekly call-in talk show that broadcasts each Friday on public radio stations, distributed by WNYC Studios.

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Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959), known professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor.

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Sebastian Stan

Sebastian Stan (born August 13, 1982) is a Romanian American actor.

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Seiun Award

The is a Japanese speculative fiction award for the best science fiction works and achievements during the preceding year.

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Self-publishing

Self-publishing is the publication of any book, album, or other media by its author without the involvement of an established publisher.

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Skepticality

Skepticality is the official podcast of The Skeptics Society's Skeptic magazine.

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Sojourner (rover)

Sojourner is the Mars Pathfinder robotic Mars rover that landed on in the Ares Vallis region, and explored Mars for around three months.

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Sol (Day on Mars)

Sol (borrowed from the Latin word for sun) is a Mars solar day; that is, a Mars-day.

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Solanum

Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include two food crops of high economic importance, the potato and the tomato.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The Martian (film)

The Martian is a 2015 science fiction survival film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon.

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The Moon Is Hell!

The Moon Is Hell! is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer John W. Campbell, Jr..

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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