The Martian: how a self-published e-book became a Hollywood blockbuster
Read it and weep.
In 2009 Weir began posting the story on his website, chapter by chapter. ‘I wasn’t writing for a mainstream audience,’ he says. ‘I was writing for this core group of extremely technical, science-minded dorks like me.
J. Giambrone 
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