5/10/2023 0 Comments Author the martianAnd he honed his craft by self-publishing a steady stream of short stories – including one, The Egg, that went viral in 2009. He created a web comic, Casey And Andy, that built up an audience of 50,000 readers. He wrote two terrible books before he wrote a good one. “I still have no idea what I did right,” he said, and it’s true that there was a lot of luck involved.īut like most cases of overnight success, his story is also one of practice, persistence, and patience. He was friendly, fun, and still slightly shell-shocked by the steady trickle of journalists coming to hear his story – as well as thrilled to have finally realised his dream of giving up his day job as a computer programmer to become a full-time writer. His condo was modest but comfortable, shared with his cat, a vast collection of board games, and a wide collection of booze bottles for the cocktail and game nights he held for friends. I met Andy Weir at his home in Mountain View, California in 2015, a few weeks before the film of his best-selling book The Martian came out.
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