Andy Weir

But do you think that will happen?

Do you think the United States, the most powerful military force of all time, is going to sit idly by while half their population starves?

How about China, a nation of 1.3 billion people that's always on the verge of famines in the best of times?

Do you think they'll just leave their militarily weak neighbors alone?

I shook my head.

There will be wars.

Yes, there will be wars.

Fought for the same reason most wars in ancient times were fought for, food.

They'd use religion or glory or whatever as an excuse, but it was always about food, farmlands, and people to work that land.

Very Dune.

Yes, quite.

But, like, yeah, that is so important to stand in contrast to what Rocky and Rylan find with each other in space.

And for Grace.

In the book, there's a bunch more fucking before that happens.

There's, you know, because astronauts are very cool heroes as well.

Mark Watney's a cool hero.

But, like...

This is what Drew Goddard told Anne Thompson for IndieWire.

He said, quote, I love watching competent people do their jobs.

And his mom was a schoolteacher.