The Martian is Andy Weir’s debut novel that was published in 2011. It sold million of copies and was even made into a film starring Mark Wahlberg. The novel has been praised for its innovative ways of telling a survival story, and was surprisingly a very funny read at points. It is a story about survival in a place where humans aren’t meant to survive, and the perils of space exploration that few have thought about previously. The story takes you through a roller coaster of thrilling events and shows the tough, brave, and genius ways a human can survive when all odds are stacked against him. The story starts on the Ares 3 mission to the cold empty planet of Mars. The main character, Mark Watney, was the project’s head botanist who was responsible