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Andy Weir's Reading List

The author of “The Martian” and, most recently, “Artemis” has never read Frank Herbert’s “Dune”: “Yes, I know. I’m the worst sci-fi fan in the universe.”

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Books from Conversations with Tyler: Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space (2026)

Extracted via LLM (gemini-2.5-flash) from auto-captions of Conversations with Tyler (2026-04-10).

Source: www.youtube.com

Cover of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein · 1967 · Buy on Amazon
"I've read some of your favorite works are by Robert Heinland, Moon is a Harsh Mistress..."
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson · 1993 · Buy on Amazon
"...Red Mars, of course, by Kim Stanley Robinson..."
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The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov · Buy on Amazon
"...Azimov's Caves of Steel, and it's a consistent theme in these stories. In fact, the stories you love, they involve an element of rebellion."
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · Buy on Amazon
"also underrated. It's the first like fictional adventure story ever. He invented that... It's a great book."
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Tunnel in the Sky
Robert Heinlein · Buy on Amazon
"Oh, it's a survival story. It's uh people versus nature. I I love that sort of stuff as you may have noticed."
Cover of Ringworld
Ringworld
Larry Niven · 1970 · Buy on Amazon
"I liked reading Nan growing up. And um, he he would actually kind of do all the math... you do something like the ring world, all of that works."

By the Book: Andy Weir (2017)

NYT By the Book column (2017-11-16).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of I, Robot
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov · Buy on Amazon
"I think my favorite is I, Robot by Asimov. It was the first book I read that had multiple stories taking place in a consistent setting. It made the setting so rich and believable to me."
Cover of Tunnel in the Sky
Tunnel in the Sky
Robert Heinlein · Buy on Amazon
"Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky gave me a love of survival stories."
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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline · Buy on Amazon
"I absolutely love Ready Player One by Ernie Cline. I even wrote fanfiction for it that Ernie included in a later edition."
Cover of The Foundation Trilogy
The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov · Buy on Amazon
"So I cracked it open and finally read one of the greatest science fiction tales of all time."
Cover of The Stand
The Stand
Stephen King · Buy on Amazon

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