Re the Mary Roach books "Stiff," "Bonk" and "Packing for Mars." All get a strong thumbs-up from me. Re Andy Weir's new book, "The Martian," after listening to the Science Friday interview (thanks, Debbie, for the link!) I bought the Kindle edition of it last night and began reading. It's wonderful! Can an e-book be called a "page-turner?" Maybe the correct accolade for a hard-to-put-down e-book is a "screen swiper." I have no doubt that the movie rights are currently being fought over. Seth -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Debbie Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 6:22 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] "The Martian" by Andy Weir That was an awesome interview! Mr. Weir really nailed the science and technology. Now I hear they are going to make it into a movie. Thanks for sharing the podcast! Debbie On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Kelly Ricks <kellyalenericks@gmail.com>wrote:
Debbie, Here's a great Science Friday podcast talking about this book. It does indeed sound very interesting. Lots of real science!
http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/02/14/2014/andy-weir-the-martian. html
Enjoy!
~Kelly _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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