"I was casually walking by a lake when a duck coming in to land flew right into me. I was doubled over, and the duck looked ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel on which its based as well as the book The Martian, is fundamentally an ...

Can you tell the story of the evolution of Western drama in the time it takes to boil a kettle? Arguably not, but it can be instructive to take a step back and ask what the major stepping-stone works ...

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