Andy Weir: The Martian (Special Edition)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully conducted its third propulsion test on Mars on April 25, 2021, local time. Since the dawn of human history, Mars has been the subject of ceaseless human interest among the planets in the solar system and has been the primary destination for space exploration. Furthermore, it has been regarded as a new human settlement by space entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and has served as a source of imagination for writers such as H. G. Wells and Ray Bradbury. What kind of story would an unconventional survival novel tell if written with Mars as its backdrop? How would one procure food, and how would one breathe on a planet where even oxygen is scarce? Above all, what if one were left ‘alone’ on Mars, and what if that solitary survivor were the protagonist? *The Martian* is a work that captures all these hypotheses. As the debut novel by the genius SF writer Andy Weir, this book is a masterpiece written by overlaying the survival story of a man stranded in a space project currently being pursued by NASA onto solid scientific facts, one by one. Furthermore, this controversial work is based on a novel that Andy Weir began posting on his blog as a hobby in 2009. Following an outpouring of requests from readers, it was first introduced as an e-book in 2011. Then, through word of mouth, it caught the eye of an executive at Crown, a leading U.S. publisher, and was finally published as an official edition in 2014. With a behind-the-scenes story that reads like a drama, the novel immediately became a *New York Times* bestseller. The following year, in 2015, Director Ridley Scott produced and released a film of the same name, causing both the novel and the movie to create a global box office sensation. In the domestic publishing market as well, it rose to the number one spot on the bestseller list immediately upon release.

Korean title: 마션(스페셜 에디션)

Korean author: 앤디 위어

Korean publisher: 알에이치코리아

ISBN-13: 9788925588650