It all could have been a message board post. The rest of Weir's story is a dream for anyone writing to entertain themselves he published the novel as an e-book, saw it rise to the top of Amazon's sales charts, landed a $100,000 publishing deal from Crown, watched Hollywood scoop up the movie rights for Matt Damon and Alien director Ridley Scott, and walked red carpet after red carpet as the finished film raced to theaters. He eventually extrapolated these concepts into The Martian, a problem-solving thriller with the prose of a Michael Critchton novel and the heart of a Reddit thread. Around 2009, nights spent reading up on NASA's latest discoveries prompted him to devise a faux-mission to Mars. He grew from a BBS user in the 1980s to a guy who, admittedly, spends too much time scrolling through Imgur threads. For Weir, the web was an endless source of inspiration. He has the Internet to thank for his success. By day, Andy Weir was a computer programmer.
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