[ SECRET POST #6230 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6230 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

The more I think on it, the more I realize that what really stuck in my craw was the hand-waiving of the last section of science in a science novel.

Like, it is totally thematically appropriate for him to finally make that sacrifice, and if he had died or been able to return to Earth with tons and tons of astrophage it would have been a great ending. We don't need to see him get home, same as The Martian.

But Andy Weir is all about novelizing science, and he wants me to accept an ending where our main character is surviving on a planet with higher gravity, crushing pressure of sulfur, in complete darkness with no human food with no physical touch of another living being, and the explanation is "It took a while but they figured it out"??

DOUBT.

The audience here is a bunch of nerds, and it just struck me as the usual physics bias against the biological sciences. Like, I get that he probably didn't have the time to write enough to make a human on Erid scientifically feasible, but that doesn't negate that it basically feels like it was just tacked because he didn't want to get into it and decided to hand waive on with no real thought but to get to a happy ending. It irks me.

And the social scientist fan in me really wants to know what Earth looks like.

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DA - Granted, it’s been a while since I read that book, but I seem to remember that Grace wasn’t really doing that well at the end. Like, better than he expected to be because he thought he was going to die, but physically kind of… prematurely old and unhealthy? I mean, obviously ymmv, but I didn’t find it that way realistic because it seemed like they were keeping him alive the way a really dedicated child might keep a carnival prize goldfish alive for a few years.