Andy Weir
This is straight up science fiction of the best sort. No dystopian messages or utopian hopes. It is near future, human space travel to Mars. We start with the third manned mission to Mars aborting after 6 days on planet due to a massive dust storm. During evacuation, Mark Watney (mechanical engineer/botanist) is injured, blown away, and then left for dead. This gets you through about page 3. The entire story is a survivalist thriller in an extreme environment. Watney is the ideal "think outside the box" engineer who refuses to believe that a problem exists that doesn't have a solution. His only task is to survive for around four years until the next manned mission arrives and can rescue him. This is a page turner novel, putting one extreme situation after another in front of the reader that you can't really believe, but need to see how he solves the problem. It is also fun to cut back to earth to see NASA, etc. working Apollo 13 style to try to solve problems from their end. If you want a feel good, hope for humanity, space thriller, this is it. Well done Weir.
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