His readers wanted to get the book published on Amazon, which the author sold for less than a dollar. The debut novel by Andy Weir, The Martian, was written as a series and published on his website. Written at a time before the internet, it was not picked up by publishers however, that didn’t deter the author from writing further stories. The first book he tried to publish, Theft of Pride, a space opera, turned out to be a failure.
One of his popular creations, which drew lots of visitors to his site, was Casey and Andy, a humorous webcomic series.
He published many of his stories over the years on his personal blog. He has been working as a software developer since then while writing books in his spare time.ĭuring his twenties, Andy Weir began writing fiction. In fact, while being employed by Blizzard, Andy Weir worked on Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. Instead, he obtained several other jobs as a pc programmer with prestigious companies such as AOL, Blizzard (the company that created the WOW and Diablo games), Palm, and Mobileltron. While he attended the UC San Diego’s computer science courses, he did not graduate due to lacking the funds to complete his studies in full. His first job was as a computer programmer at Sandia National Laboratories, which he started doing at the age of 15. His father was an accelerator physicist, and his mother an electrical engineer.Īndy grew up reading classic sci-fi books, including stories by Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Both his parents had relevant careers that would shape the writing that the author would put out later in his years.
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