The result is a story that is as plausible as it is compelling. Weir displays a virtuosic ability to write about highly technical situations without leaving readers far behind. From there, Mark must overcome a series of increasingly tricky mental, physical and technical challenges just to stay alive, until finally, he realizes there is just a glimmer of hope that he may actually be rescued.
So, armed with a few potatoes, he becomes Mars' first ever farmer. Luckily, Mark is a botanist as well as an astronaut. He wakes up some time later to find himself stranded on Mars with a limited supply of food and no way to communicate with Earth or his fellow astronauts. As it happens, though, due to a bizarre chain of events, Mark is very much alive. In grave danger themselves, they made an agonizing but logical decision: Figuring Mark was dead, they took off and headed back to Earth. The crew knew he'd lost pressure in his suit, and they'd seen his biosigns go flat.
The next minute, he was gone, blown away, with an antenna sticking out of his side. One minute, astronaut Mark Watney was with his crew, struggling to make it out of a deadly Martian dust storm and back to the ship, currently in orbit over Mars. This is the first novel from software engineer Weir. When a freak dust storm brings a manned mission to Mars to an unexpected close, an astronaut who is left behind fights to stay alive.
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