A lot of this success was down to the research that Weir had put into the story and in making it as accurate as possible, doing extensive research on technology that would be used in the various situations that come up in the book.

After making it onto the best-seller’s list on Amazon, Weir sold the rights to the Martian, which became a huge critical and commercial success. The Martian, which gave Andy Weir his first taste of commercial success, was originally released on his website for free in a serialised form, and then released on Kindle 99 cents, purely at the request of some fans of Weir’s work. Although he never had any of his early work published, he would put it on his personal website for people to read. Andy Weir did not graduate from his computer science course, but thanks to his extensive knowledge of programming, he went on to work for some of the biggest names in the industry, including AOL and Blizzard.Īfter leaving university, Weir started writing science fiction, which had always been his literary love, since he grew up reading the works of authors such as Arthur C Clarke. In his teens, Weir went to work for Sandia National Laboratories as a computer programmer, before leaving to study computer science at the University of California, San Diego.

From an early age, Weir had taken an interest in computer and specifically computer programming. Andy Weir was born in June 1972, in California, where he was also raised.

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