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> Andy Weir’s writing style is fast paced and practically a screenplay already

Oh thanks for the warning. I was avoiding him based on a hunch. Now I know I was right.

If anyone else is weird like me and likes books to not read like a movie screenplay, same goes for The Expanse.

For what it's worth, I found (the start of the first book of) the Expanse to be this in a bad way, but the Martian to be this in a good way. I can definitely see why some people would find The Martian annoying too, but it feels more like a passion project than a TV pitch.

I loathe movie adaptations and never watch them, but the source material The Martian was a very good read in my 12th grade.

I like hard SciFi with no aliens and plausible rules.

I don't like scifi or fantasy, hard or not, that turns into a technical manual. Which is another thing I heard of in connection to Weir. Brandon Sanderson's fantasy series with all those metals is another example. I managed to finish like 3 books but I simply skipped all the d&d manual like descriptions of metal usage.

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