Andy Weir grew up reading a lot of science such as the works of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov .when he was just 15 years old he began working as a computer programmer for sandia national laboratories. He began writing science fiction in his 20’s. From 2002 to 2008 he briefly worked on comic called chesire crossing bridging alice in wonderland peter pan and wizard of oz. the attention he got from these helped launch his writing career. His first novel he tried to published failed the novel was called theft of pride. His work did not began to gain attention until “the egg” a short story he created which later turned into one act plays on youtube his first very successful novel he created was the martian. He wrote the book to be as scientifically accurate as possible. The novel started out as a free serial on his website but people began to request it on amazon kindle and it skyrocketed from there.
Author/Character Comparison:Well as their is really one main character i feel like he sees himself as mark watney because mark watney is a survivor he beat the odds of the planet mars i feel like andy himself is a survivor because when his first novel did not succeed he did not give up he kept going until he had a best selling novel mark watney survived on mars by preparing and every time something didn't go right he did not give up he kept on going until her friends could come back and get him andy survived and beat all the odds just like mark did. Andy sees himself as mark because they are both strong independent people.mark survived using all the resources he had on the planet mars and andy survived by working on some projects helping getting his name out there to succeed