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The Martian

Andy Weir · 2011 · 384 pages

Recommended by 4 people on the record.

fiction sci-fi page-turner

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Deva recommends it
Try 'The Martian'. 384 pages, nonstop momentum, solid prose. Beats any 900 page slog.

on X · 16 Aug 2026

Rakhim Davletkaliyev loved it
When an engineer or a scientist decides to write science fiction, it’s usually either very bad or very good. This one is very good.

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

Tim Urban loved it
Book for sure. The movie was solid and enjoyable, but kind of just another pretty good movie. The book was special.

on waitbutwhy.com · 6 May 2016

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.