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Andy Weir Is Looking Forward to the Space Boom

N BESTSELLING NOVELIST Andy Weir’s vision, space is always trying to kill you and has probably already killed some of your friends. But the heroes of , , and somehow manage to use their astonishingly but not quite implausibly broad basic science knowledge to triumph over the elements. While Weir stubbornly resists political classification, his books’s Katherine Mangu-Ward exchanged emails with Weir in July about the climate, the future, and what to read next.

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