Andy Weir

I was just writing stuff nobody's ever seen or heard of because it sucked.

And The Martian was my third full-length novel that I wrote.

Where are the other two?

One of them I wrote before really the Internet was a big thing.

So it is like there are a few hard copies.

I'm trying to find and destroy them all.

It's really a very bad book.

Like, I mean, it makes me cringe when I just read like a paragraph from it.

My mother has a copy that she's hidden.

because she doesn't want me to destroy everything.

But yeah, it's really very bad.

The second one, I thought actually, even now looking back, I think the plot and the storyline had merit, but it was like very poorly executed because I still had a lot to learn about prose.

So that one might see the light of day one day.

it's out there in the internet.

It was called theft of pride.

I mean, I'm sure you could find it online and I don't really make any attempt to, I mean, it's copyrighted.

If somebody else tried to make print copies of it, I'd sue them.

But like, I don't make any attempt to prevent piracy.

I wrote this like, let's see, I finished it in the nineties, like 1999 ish.

And yeah, The Martian came out in, what, 2013.