I rewatched The Martian and totally forgot how optimistic this movie is about technology, America, and international relations 
when this movie came out in 2015 my little liberal ass loved it. i still believed in a future.
we dont even have bazinga mars nerds anymore just different flavors of “i wont eat the bugs” all clawing at each other to climb out of a pit rapidly filling with water
xi i will scrub toilets please give me a K visa 
Weir’s latest book, project hail Mary, had a scene where the US army and the PLA jointly march into a courthouse to inform the judge and ballifs that the main characters are above copyright law actually.
That’s getting a movie too, and I’m honestly kinda looking forward to pirating it and seeing the
sort of a project hail mary spoiler, but a pretty early one and also kind of the main premise of the story
little alien buddy
I hate the way he writes. Characters are all interchangeable and quirky because he says so. The science is tacked on like a chemistry teacher putting their kids to bed.
SciFi: Read Larry Niven and James Blish if you like feats of engineering, read Ann Leckie and Nancy Kress if you like characters defined by their actions.
Don’t tell me to be excited Andy just because you wrote “THAT’S SOO COOL!” after revealing some tidbit. I’m not a fucking child.
PHM is good despite how reddit guy the protagonist is
Rocky was the only good character IMO, mostly because he’s the one character whose motives you dont immediately know when they’re introduced.
Two whole pages intrigue until he plays lapdog to the protagonist. Good while it lasted