书名：The Martian 火星救援
作者：Andy Weir
出版社名称：Crown Publishers
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
ISBN：9781101905555
商品尺寸：11 x 2.5 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：448（以实物为准）

The Martian.《火星救援》太空宅男安迪·威尔（Andy Weir）处女作，以第一人称为主讲述了主角孤身一人困在火星近400多（火星）天，后来通过自己的技能求得救助的故事。因2015年10月2日，由雷德利·斯科特执导、马特·达蒙主演的同名电影上映，直接将它推向了《纽约时报》畅销书榜的榜首位置。本书适合对科幻小说、太空探索感兴趣的书迷朋友阅读。

推荐理由：
1.同名电影《火星救援》原著小说，极客宅男作家安迪威尔的逆袭之作，很值得一看；
2.这是一本完全由读者口碑造就的年度科幻，从个人网页连载到亚马逊kindle自出版，再到《纽约时报》畅销书榜榜首；
3.《火星救援》整个故事设定的时间点，以及火星探索所采用的科技手段，都是依据现实中各种版本的NASA火星计划进行创作；
4.准确的物理、化学和植物学数据为读者打造了一个火星生存指南。

The Martianis a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was his debut novel under his own name. It was originally self-published in 2011; Crown Publishing purchased the rights and re-released it in 2014. The story follows an American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in the year 2035 and must improvise in order to survive.The Martian, a film adaptation directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, was released in October 2015.

Media Reviews:
“Brilliant.”  —Wall Street Journal
“Terrific.”  —USA Today
“Riveting… Cast Away meets Apollo 13.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Hugely entertaining.” —Chicago Tribune
“One of the best thrillers I’ve read in years.”  —Douglas Preston
“Utterly nail-biting and memorable.”  —Financial Times
“Relentlessly entertaining and inventive.” —Ernest Cline

六天前，马克·沃特尼成为了第一批行走在火星上的人。如今，他也将成为第一个葬身火星的人。一场突如其来的风暴让阿瑞斯三船员被迫放弃任务。撤离过程中，沃特尼遭遇意外，被孤身一人丢在了这片寸草不生的红色荒漠中，剩余的补给也远不够撑到救援可能抵达的那一天。当然，沃特尼也不准备坐以待毙，凭借着他的植物学家和机械工程师背景，他决定跟火星来一场不是你死就是我活的过家家游戏。

In 2035, NASA astronaut Mark Watney, a botanist and mechanical engineer, has been left stranded on Mars after the crew of the Ares III mission were forced to evacuate their landing site in Acidalia Planitia due to an intense dust storm with high winds. Watney was impaled by an antenna during the evacuation and believed dead. His injury proves relatively minor, but with no way to contact Earth, Watney must rely on his own resourcefulness to survive. He begins a log of his experiences for those who might discover it long after his death.

安迪·威尔（AndyWeir），从15岁起就被美国国家实验室聘为软件工程师。执着的太空宅男，沉迷于相对论物理、轨道力学和载人飞船。《火星救援》是他的处女作。
2009年，安迪·威尔陆续将他的小说《火星救援》贴在自己的个人网站上，供人免费阅读。在众多读者的强烈要求下，他在亚马逊平台上发布了作品，收费0.99美金，哪知花钱买他小说的读者比免费阅读的读者更多。2013年3月，兰登书屋以六位数买下小说的版权。仅仅四天后，安迪·威尔又接到了来自20世纪福克斯电影公司的橄榄枝。2015年，由大导演雷德利·斯科特执导、马特·达蒙主演的电影《火星救援》上映，更是激发了这本小说的购买热潮，直接将它推向了《纽约时报》畅销书榜的榜首位置。

ANDY WEIR (born June 16, 1972) was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is also a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects like relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. The Martian is his first novel.

    Six days into what should be the greatest month of my life, and it’s turned into a nightmare.
I don’t even know who’ll read this. I guess someone will find it eventually. Maybe a hundred years from now.
    For the record… I didn’t die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of crew thought I did, and I can’t blame them. Maybe there’ll be a day of national mourning for me, and my Wikipedia page will say, “Mark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars.”
    And it’ll be right, probably. ‘Cause I’ll surely die here. Just not on Sol 6 when everyone thinks I did.
    Let’s see… where do I begin?
    The Ares Program. Mankind reaching out to Mars to send people to another planet for the very first time and expand the horizons of humanity blah, blah, blah. The Ares 1 crew did their thing and came back heroes. They got the parades and fame and love of the world.
    Ares 2 did the same thing, in a different location on Mars. They got a firm handshake and a hot cup of coffee when they got home.
    Ares 3. Well, that was my mission. Okay, not mine per se. Commander Lewis was in charge. I was just one of her crew. Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” of the mission if I were the only remaining person.
    What do you know? I’m in command.
    I wonder if this log will be recovered before the rest of the crew die of old age. I presume they got back to Earth all right. Guys, if you’re reading this: It wasn’t your fault. You did what you had to do. In your position I would have done the same thing. I don’t blame you, and I’m glad you survived.
    I guess I should explain how Mars missions work, for any layman who may be reading this. We got to Earth orbit the normal way, through an ordinary ship to Hermes. All the Ares missions use Hermes to get to and from Mars. It’s really big and cost a lot so NASA built only one.
Once we got to Hermes, four additional unmanned missions brought us fuel and supplies while we prepared for our trip. Once everything was a go, we set out for Mars. But not very fast. Gone are the days of heavy chemical fuel burns and trans-Mars injection orbits.
    Hermes is powered by ion engines. They throw argon out the back of the ship really fast to get a tiny amount of acceleration. The thing is, it doesn’t take much reactant mass, so a little argon (and a nuclear reactor to power things) let us accelerate constantly the whole way there. You’d be amazed at how fast you can get going with a tiny acceleration over a long time.

    I could regale you with tales of how we had great fun on the trip, but I won’t. I don’t feel like reliving it right now. Suffice it to say we got to Mars 124 days later without strangling each other.
From there, we took the MDV (Mars descent vehicle) to the surface. The MDV is basically a big can with some light thrusters and parachutes attached. Its sole purpose is to get six humans from Mars orbit to the surface without killing any of them.
    And now we come to the real trick of Mars exploration: having all of our shit there in advance.
A total of fourteen unmanned missions deposited everything we would need for surface operations. They tried their best to land all the supply vessels in the same general area, and did a reasonably good job. Supplies aren’t nearly so fragile as humans and can hit the ground really hard. But they tend to bounce around a lot.
    Naturally, they didn’t send us to Mars until they’d confirmed that all the supplies had made it to the surface and their containers weren’t breached. Start to finish, including supply missions, a Mars mission takes about three years. In fact, there were Ares 3 supplies en route to Mars while the Ares 2 crew were on their way home.
    The most important piece of the advance supplies, of course, was the MAV. The Mars ascent vehicle. That was how we would get back to Hermes after surface operations were complete. The MAV was soft-landed (as opposed to the balloon bounce-fest the other supplies had). Of course, it was in constant communication with Houston, and if there had been any problems with it, we would have passed by Mars and gone home without ever landing.
    The MAV is pretty cool. Turns out, through a neat set of chemical reactions with the Martian atmosphere, for every kilogram of hydrogen you bring to Mars, you can make thirteen kilograms of fuel. It’s a slow process, though. It takes twenty-four months to fill the tank. That’s why they sent it long before we got here.
    You can imagine how disappointed I was when I discovered the MAV was gone.