But as for my interest in space, that probably came from science fiction. And that's probably because my dad is a particle physicist and my mom was an electrical engineer.
He even shared a "weird wild fantasy" or two about casting for the film adaptation of Artemis, to which Fox and New Regency have already acquired the rights.
Weir spoke to Newsweek about writing ("I still have a lot to learn"), why he "avoids politics like the plague" and how he became such a Tina Fey fan. In Artemis, his sophomore effort, published November 14, he imagines a new kind of frontier town in humanity's first settlement away from Earth. Weir-a self-professed science and science fiction dork susceptible to 1980s nostalgia-has abandoned his former cubicle at a technology company and turned his attention to writing full time. Those rights morphed into the Oscar-nominated film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, which raked in more than $630 million worldwide. What had begun as serialized chapters posted on his blog became a book deal, then movie rights, at such a dizzying pace he thought it was an elaborate scam. Andy Weir was working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley when his very first book, The Martian, became a stunning success ( more than 3 million copies sold and counting).
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