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Novel Ideas: Season 2, Episode 5

Books Entertainment
February 18, 2015Erik Wecks

Andy Weir’s The Martian started as an indie book. How did it become one the best selling science fiction books of 2014? We’ll try to answer that question on this weeks Novel Ideas.

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