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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now he is sure he will be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate, believing him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to signal Earth that he is alive. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills, and a relentless refusal to quit, he confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next.