I have to hand it to the marketing department tasked with promoting The Martian - they're doing a bang-up job of getting me excited about this movie. Of course, I decided to see it the moment I heard Ridley Scott was adapting Andy Weir's wonderful novel, but for more casual moviegoers, there have been in-universe chats with the crew, a fake episode of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Star Talk, and now a PDF Ares 3 Mission Guide, which you can download here. It's very slick.
I too, am looking forward to the movie. I saw a teaser over 6 months ago and I didn't need anything else to prompt me, but I am glad that they are expanding upon the usual. The way the story was catapulted to this stage is even more amazing. Who would have thought that someone with no fictional writing experience could leap that far into success? Unbelievable.
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