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Andrew Taylor Weir (/ w i r /; born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist. His 2011 novel The Martian was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott.He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016 and his 2021 novel Project Hail Mary was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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- Ashley Weir (wife)
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Explore the books, movies, and graphic novels by Andy Weir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary. Learn about his background, his writing process, and his upcoming projects.
Andy Weir has 50 books on Goodreads with 4039504 ratings. Andy Weir’s most popular book is The Martian.
May 3, 2021 · Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey. A new novel from “The Martian” author is slightly more out there, but it still has plenty of particle physics. “The real world is a far richer and more ...
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Sep 27, 2015 · Programmer Andy Weir had always longed to read science fiction with a greater focus on science. So, he wrote a novel of his own — which has since become a best-seller and, now, a blockbuster film.
May 4, 2021 · Andy Weir’s debut novel, “The Martian” (2011), found an enormous audience largely because it was a competent-man story that might have captivated fans in the 1930s. Its stranded astronaut ...
ANDY WEIR built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, THE MARTIAN, allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail.
