Liu Youyang, chief reporter of Shenzhen Business Daily
In 2015, Andy Will surprised readers with his debut novel, The Martian. The novel tells the story of a shipwrecked astronaut surviving on Mars, using precise data to create a "Martian survival guide". After its publication, it quickly topped the New York Times best-seller list, and was also brought to the screen by Ridley Scott and Matt Damon, and the film of the same name was nominated for seven Oscars, making space potatoes deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
After reading this novel, Ma Boyong once praised: "This science fiction novel is simply cute to me." In terms of big stories, I like this kind of ordinary people fighting to survive in the ordinary universe, and it exudes high optimism and scientific spirit, which is one of the most valuable and fascinating qualities in science fiction. "This novel has Made Andy Will carry the banner of hard science fiction and become the face of this field.
In 2021, Andy Will returned with a new masterpiece", "The Rescue Plan", this time, he directly moved the story to the vast deep space.
Tech otaku + cross-galaxy friends
Join forces to stage the space rescue
"The Rescue Plan" continues Andy's consistent hardcore knowledge of science and engineering and a unique sense of humor, and once again tells the surprising story of a person facing an unknown universe .
In the vastness of the universe, Ryan Grace is the only remaining hope of the entire human civilization. But when he woke up, he couldn't even remember his name. He searches for identity in the fear of the unknown, taking clues from fragments of memory. Can human civilization survive? This key person who shouldered the responsibility of saving the planet is now on the line... In the midst of the scientific puzzles that peel back the cocoon, Andy Weir uses hardcore scientific and engineering details to tell us a story of love and salvation.
As a persistent space otaku, Andy is obsessed with relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and manned spacecraft. He became a hit with his debut novel The Martian, and then wrote full-time. The Rescue Plan is his third novel.
In addition to the down-to-earth technical details, Andy Will's novels also walk the streets with a variety of hilarious melodrama and a fearless sense of humor. The various little wits in "The Martian" have made readers can't help but be amused during emergency rescue, and the protagonist still does not forget to make two jokes of his own when he is in a desperate situation, creating a silly image of a scientific and technological otaku. The "Rescue Plan" further carries forward this "revolutionary fearless spirit", and the male protagonist who lives a Buddhist life and only wants to live a stay-at-home life runs alone to the space "battlefield" to save all mankind...
The film of the same name starring Commander Gao
Filming is in progress
The English edition of The Rescue Plan was officially published on May 4, 2021, and as soon as it was published, it quickly landed on the new York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and other major best-seller lists, and still occupies a high position.
Amazon's readers' reputation is even more overwhelming, and soon received more than 10,000 five-star praise, and readers directly called for more fire and explosion than "The Martian". The Chinese translator of the book is the well-known science fiction translator Geng Hui, who admits that the reading experience of "The Rescue Plan" is like "a fireworks show" in the brain.
Not only was "The Rescue Plan" selected for Obama's 2021 Summer Book List, but the film rights were sold at a high price before the novel was officially published. Now, the film of the same name is being filmed, directed by the director of "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe", and the male protagonist is Ryan Gosling, who has played "Blade Runner 2049" and is nicknamed "High Commander" by the majority of fans.
For this book, the media and readers who read it first have already received a lot of praise, and the Douban score is as high as 9.4.
Review: Yu Fanghua