"Thanks! I wrote The Egg in an evening but it took years to write The Martian. Sometimes I'm a little sad that The Martian wasn't anywhere near as popular, but I guess it's a niche readership. Hard sci-fi isn't for everyone."
That's great!
That's great!
I feel like modern science may somehow be restricting or restricted from ground breaking, compelling discoveries.
Like, imagine if the world had a big-budget moonshot research project? Mining and colonizing asteroids, a space elevator, novel thruster technology, colonizing the seas even.
It seems like Andy writes exactly for movies. Heavy on scene and technicality details, but very, very scant on quality dialogue and character development.