Andy Weir

I'm just a nerd in his office.

And I like it that way.

People ask me that all the time.

Of my books, it's one that really kind of says like, oh, there could be a sequel.

I have had some ideas for it, but I'm not like working on one right this second.

Definitely leaving it open.

It's not enough just to sequel a popular book.

It has to be a good idea in its own right.

Like in other words, if I just started with this book and no one had ever heard of Project Hail Mary, would this idea be good?

And I don't have one yet.

Everybody says, oh, you should write a book about what happens back on Earth, to which I say like, okay, if I came out with a sequel to Project Hail Mary that didn't have Rocky in it, there'd be like an angry mob with pitchforks and torches at my front door.

So I can't just do that.

Where do you stand on whether extraterrestrial life exists?

I think it's extremely likely, in fact, almost guaranteed that there is extraterrestrial

extraterrestrial life.

However, I also firmly believe it's never been here.

It's never come here to our solar system.

I don't believe that we've been visited by aliens, intelligent or, or even microbes.

So the reason I believe there is extraterrestrial life is just that the universe is so huge.

There are so many stars, so many galaxies, so many planets.