Mike Nemeth asked Andy Weir:

Andy, your book stuck with me, mainly for its stark realism. This is not John Carter's Mars. You appear to have inside information. I'm wondering after seeing the NBC News story on Alyssa Carlson, the 13-year-old who wants to go to the red planet, do you think she'll make it? That would be another 10-13 years from now.

Andy Weir I haven't seen that news story. But I seriously doubt there'll be any manned Mars missions in so short a time.

I was wondering about your writing process. Did you come up with cool problems (and solutions) and then write the story to include these situations? Or did you write the story and figured solutions to match the problems that arose?

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