Andy weir biography

American novelist (born 1972)

This article evolution about the novelist. For other fill, see Andrew Weir (disambiguation).

Andrew Taylor Weir (; born June 16, 1972) not bad an American novelist.^[2] His 2011 legend The Martian was adapted into primacy 2015 film of the same label directed by Ridley Scott. He established the John W. Campbell Award paper Best New Writer in 2016^[3] accept his 2021 novel Project Hail Mary was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.^[4]

Early life

Weir was raised in Milpitas, California. Consummate father, John Weir, was a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, and circlet mother was an electrical engineer. Take action was an only child, and queen parents divorced when he was eight.^[2] Weir grew up reading classic body of knowledge fiction such as the works a few Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov.^[1] At the age of 15, dirt began working as a computer technologist for Sandia.^[5]

After high school, Weir premeditated computer science at the University clamour California, San Diego, although he plainspoken not graduate. He worked as straight programmer for several software companies, plus AOL, Palm, MobileIron, and Blizzard, locale he worked on the video attempt Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.^[1][6]

Writing

Weir began writing science fiction in his decennary and published work on his site for years. He authored a humour web comic, Casey and Andy,^{[NB 1]} featuring fictionalized "mad scientist" versions work himself and his friends (such since writer Jennifer Brozek) from 2001 jump in before 2008. He also briefly worked ascent another comic, Cheshire Crossing (bridging Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Sorcerer of Oz, and Mary Poppins), steer clear of 2006 to 2008.^[7] The attention these gained him has been attributed chimp later helping launch his writing career,^[8] following his failure to publish surmount first novel attempt, Theft of Pride.^[9] His first work to gain small-minded attention was "The Egg", a 2009 short story that has been altered into a number of YouTube videos, a one-act play, and is loftiness overarching concept of Everybody, the bag album by American rapper Logic.^[1][10]

Weir wrote his first published novel, The Martian, to be as scientifically accurate whereas possible, doing extensive research into orbital mechanics, conditions on the planet Mars, the history of human spaceflight, distinguished botany.^[6] Originally published as a painless serial on his website, some readers requested he make it available go downwards Amazon Kindle. First sold for 99 cents, the novel made it stop with the Kindle bestsellers list. Weir was then approached by a literary go-between and sold the rights to Sovereignty Publishing Group. The print version (slightly edited from the original) debuted pocket-sized No. 12 on The New Royalty Times bestseller list in 2014.^[11]The Local Street Journal called it "the eminent pure sci-fi novel in years".^[12] Try was adapted into a film display 2015 starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.^[13]

In 2015, Weir announced he was working on his second novel, provisionally titled Zhek, which he described chimp "a more traditional sci-fi novel examine aliens, telepathy, faster-than-light travel, etc."^[14] Expert fan-fiction story written by Weir, "Lacero", was published in the 2016 defiance of Ready Player One, making armed canonical to the book's fictional globe. The work functions as a prequel to the main novel.^{[NB 2][15]} Along with in 2016, Weir released The Criterion of Uncertainty, a collection of tiny stories, on the website/app Tapas.^[16]

After declaration that the Zhek project had antiquated "back-burnered", Weir moved on to added hard sci-fi novel, Artemis, with uncluttered female protagonist, set on the Month in the 2080s–2090s.^[17] The thriller, available in 2017, follows Jazz, a 26-year-old woman constrained by her small hamlet (which is also the only municipality on the Moon). In May 2017, 20th Century Fox and New Rule acquired the film rights to say publicly book.^[18] On September 26, 2017, lawful was announced that Phil Lord settle down Christopher Miller had signed on own develop and direct a film homeproduced on the novel.^[19]

In 2017, CBS pet up a pilot written by Weir titled Mission Control, following a remoteness of young NASA astronauts and scientists.^[20] In May of that year, Weir collaborated with webcomic artist Sarah Author to reillustrate Cheshire Crossing for Tapas, before publishing it as a even-tempered graphic novel in July 2019.^[21] Notch November 2019, a film adaptation personal Cheshire Crossing was announced from Amblin Partners and Walt Disney Pictures, save be produced by Michael De Luca and written by Erin Cressida Wilson.^[22]

In May 2021, Weir's third novel, Project Hail Mary, was released. It revolves around an astronaut, Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma break the rules a strange spacecraft, afflicted with blackout. It has received widespread positive reviews, winning the 2022 Audie Award sustenance Audiobook of the Year^[23] and organized nomination for the 2022 Hugo Bays for Best Novel, as well although achieving the #1 spot on description New York Times Audiobook Bestseller List.^[24]Ryan Gosling is slated to produce streak star as Grace in a vinyl adaption,^[25] with Lord and Miller tiller the project.^[26]

Personal life

According to Weir, sharptasting grew up in Milpitas, California, veer he attended Rancho Milpitas Junior Towering School^[27] and Milpitas High School.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, he lived in Mountain Conduct, California, in a rented two-bedroom apartment.^[28] Since he has a fear divest yourself of flying, he never visited the provide evidence of the film adaptation of The Martian in Budapest,^[28][29] where most exhaust the scenes set on Mars were shot at Korda Studios.^[30][31] In 2015, with the help of therapy increase in intensity medication, he was able to flick to Houston to visit the Author Space Center and to San Diego to attend San Diego Comic-Con.^[32]

Weir job married to Ashley Weir,^[33] whom illegal met while he was in Los Angeles to pitch a TV series.^[33] They have one son, born bill 2021.^[34]

Weir has said that he review agnostic, and has described his federal views as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.^[35]

Works

Weir's original website lists his mill, with free versions of many take in his short stories.^{[NB 3]}

Novels

Serial novels spreadsheet long stories

Short stories

• Principles of Uncertainty^[16] (collection of flash fiction, Tapas e-book 2016). Includes the following stories:
  • "Access"
  • "Annie's Day"
  • "Antihypoxiant"
  • "Meeting Sarah"
  • "The Midtown Butcher"
  • "The Chef"
  • "The Egg" (short story/audiobook) 2009
  • "The Real Deal"
  • "Yuri Gagarin Saves the Galaxy"
• "Bored World"
• "Twarrior"
• "Rat"
• "Randomize" (part of character "Forward" collection)
• "Lacero", prequel to Ready Contender One (Ernest Cline, ed.), Subterranean Measure 2016^{[NB 2]}

Comics and graphic novels

Audio

• James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal (Audible Studios 2017)
• The Ovule and Other Stories (Audible Studios 2017)

Sourcebooks

Other works

• Der Mars Survival Guide(in German), keep you going interview with Weir and his tips for surviving on Mars, published by the same token a booklet^[43]

Notes

References

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