Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer, until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight.

He also mixes a mean cocktail.

Andy’s new novel is Artemis.

See him in the Northwest tonight at 7pm at Bellingham High School in conversation with Dr. Melissa Rice, Assistant Professor of Geology at Western Washington University, presented by Village Books.

You can also catch him tomorrow at 7pm at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park in conversation with bestselling author Neal Stephenson.

Info at AndyWeirAuthor.com