In bestselling novelist Andy Weir's vision, space is always trying to kill you and has probably already killed some of your friends. But the heroes of The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary somehow manage to use their astonishingly but not quite implausibly broad basic science knowledge to triumph over the elements. While Weir stubbornly resists political classification, his books are scientifically and economically literate and take seriously the limits of human knowledge and planning. Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward exchanged emails with Weir in July about the climate, the future, and what to read next.
Q: When humans make it back to the moon, how will we get there and what will we do there?
