Andy Weir is a terrific voice in Science Fiction. He makes being smart, industrious and creative the hallmarks of his stories. They are just as inspiring as they are entertaining.
Learn all you can. Follow your passions and interests. You just never know when what you know can solve the problem.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor of a deep space mission sent to save all life on Earth from an environmental catastrophe. Don't worry, it's not what you think.
Trouble is he has no memory of his mission or who he is. Never mind the two dead bodies that are in the ship with him.
Then he is faced with a first contact situation with another race from another star system.
It's a terrific story of survival, solving the mystery of why Grace is on this mission, finding a way to communicate with the alien in the ship next door, and cooperation between them.
At 476 pages, I found myself going back to it for just a few more pages just to see what happens next. The pace was quick without being frantic. Kind of like space. Things are so far away that time takes on a whole new scale.
Problem solving is still at the heart of Weir's writing, but this is different from his previous two books. It's his first interstellar story and I was glad his aliens were not humanoid. Why would they be? This presented a whole new set of mysteries to solve. Communication. Environment. Technology. But they had physics and mathematics in common.
I look forward to the next adventure Mr. Weir takes me on.
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