# The Martian
*A Novel*

**Author(s):** Andy Weir
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-martian/verdict.json
**Genres:** sci-fi
**Pages:** 387
**Publisher:** Broadway Books
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780553418026
**ISBN-10:** 0553418025
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-martian

## Description

The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was his debut novel under his own name. It was originally self-published in 2011; Crown Publishing purchased the rights and re-released it in 2014. The story follows an American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in 2035 and must improvise in order to survive.

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Martian has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 5.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-martian/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Survival

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★★ I'm going to have to science the shit out of this... — r-s-curtis
This book is simultaneously an edge of your seat adventure, and a roll on the floor laugh out loud masterclass.  Mark might just be one of the best and most likable protagonists to hit the printed page in the last decade.  If you enjoy real world science and engineering along with high risk survival and fantastically hilarious one liners, this is the book for you.