 This is another new book that has received universal praise, even more so than Ready Player One. In fact, I have seen zero negative reviews of this book and that's what made me interested in it. It's about an astronaut who stranded on Mars and it's a very detailed daily log of how he survives. I found it repetitive and tedious. It's another one of these new things that's being touted as rigorously scientific, but I knew that when it came to the end and the big rescue scene that the physics would go out the door and it would become pure magic like Sandra Bullock flying herself from one space station to another with a fire extinguisher for God's sake. And that's exactly what I got. I listened to the audiobook and I found the reader almost unbearable. He was doing voices and accents. He was acting. He wasn't reading. He was acting. And I have no tolerance for that. If this were an unknown book, I might give it a soft recommendation just because it's so unusual. I would tell you it has a bad ending, but it's an interesting little gem that nobody's heard of. But the fact that it has completely universal raging praise gives me full reign to be the contrarian in the room. And I'm ready to do that because I don't think this is a good book. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. And visit the 30 Seconds Sci-Fi Tumblr. That's my headquarters. In addition to my videos, I publish links and updates there every day.