Hail Mary Project is a great book, but they dumbed it down to a buddy comedy for the movie.
Andy Weir proved that there could be huge potential for actual science fiction, not whatever the fuck Star Wars or Star Trek is. Those franchises seem to appeal to people with no STEM education. It’s not hard to write plots that make no scientific sense.
Now that i’ve seen and read both, I don’t think they dumbed it down all that much. Most of the changes were kind of just good choices for going to a visual medium from a textual one.
also,
lets not kid ourselves about how “hard” this sci-fi is. Astrophage is given multiple borderline magical properties just so they actually have the ability to go to another star system and find a solution.
Hail Mary Project is a great book, but they dumbed it down to a buddy comedy for the movie.
Andy Weir proved that there could be huge potential for actual science fiction, not whatever the fuck Star Wars or Star Trek is. Those franchises seem to appeal to people with no STEM education. It’s not hard to write plots that make no scientific sense.
Now that i’ve seen and read both, I don’t think they dumbed it down all that much. Most of the changes were kind of just good choices for going to a visual medium from a textual one.
also,
lets not kid ourselves about how “hard” this sci-fi is. Astrophage is given multiple borderline magical properties just so they actually have the ability to go to another star system and find a solution.