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Andy Weir
American
Novelist
Born:
Jun 16
,
1972
Before
Good
Space
Time
You
Your
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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
Andy Weir
Work
Today
Good
Better
Wait
Ending
Tomorrow
Mind
Way
See
Good Plan
Perfect
Inspired
Come
Up
Than
Plan
Your
Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of.
Andy Weir
You
Matter
Few
Thanks
Incredibly
Our
Dream
Easy
Web
Could
Facts
Come
Era
Subject
Subject Matter
Modern
Modern Era
Information
Your
Searches
Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.
Andy Weir
Moving Forward
Light
Space
Before
Tools
Back
Several
Station
Reliable
Would
Daunting
Take
Steps
New
Re-Examine
Forces
Undoubtedly
Task
Artificial
Endure
Again
Moving
Agencies
Flight
Forward
Many
Gravity
Technologies
Designing
I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.
Andy Weir
Age
National
Computer
Hired
Laboratory
Programmer
I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.
Andy Weir
Time
Good
Knowledge
Space
Good Time
Beginning
Down
Drawing
Details
Study
Idea
Mission
End
Sitting
Getting
Hobby
Dynamics
Many
Right
Imagine
You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.
Andy Weir
Knowledge
You
Will
Someone
Write
Writer
Read
Audience
Motivation
Want
Biggest
Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.
Andy Weir
You
Tell
Having
More
Knowing
Audience
Motivated
Anyone
Stories
Your
Prerequisite
My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.
Andy Weir
Love
Great
Me
Science
Father
Moon
Think
Great Love
He
Base
Designed
Early
There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.
Andy Weir
Nothing
Would
Mars
More
Like
Than
Landing
Manned
Watch
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.
Andy Weir
People
Will
Invent
Shifting
Before
Research
Society
Asteroid
Distances
Destinations
Further
Those
Mars
New
Like
New Technologies
Send
Orbit
Manned
Much
Many
Away
Technologies
Belt
The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.
Andy Weir
Space
Live
Evolve
Clear
Simply
Missions
Did
Artificial
Reason
Zero
Gravity
Humans
Need
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
Andy Weir
You
Else
Everything
Everything Else
About
Protagonist
Reader
Forgive
Just
Rooting
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