Tim Hutton rated The Martian: 3 stars

The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
Sci Fi. Currently reading my way through Ursula K. Le Guin.
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A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when …
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
Saroo Brierley: Lion (Paperback, 2016, Penguin Canada)
The young readers' edition of the true story that inspired Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, David Wenham, …
Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt …
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, published in October 2006, is a collection of eight short stories by …
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It …
"I felt such a need to rediscover the wind of the high sea, nothing else counted at that moment, neither earth nor men. All Joshua and I wanted was to be left alone with ourselves. Any other thing did not exist, had never existed. You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that’s all, and it is as simple as a ray of sunshine, as normal as the blue of the sky."
“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan.