Carlos Chiriboga
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Mark Watney is just straight up me.
He's just me with all of my, all the things I like about myself magnified and all the things I don't like about myself erased.
He's the idealized version of me.
He's really smart.
I'm kind of funny.
He's really funny.
I'm afraid to fly.
I have to take Valium to fly.
He doesn't have that problem.
I love potatoes actually.
And I actually like disco, so there are some differences.
But yeah, so that's Mark Watney.
Now Artemis, also known as Andy Weir's other book, the main character is a 26-year-old Saudi woman who grew up on the moon.
So obviously that's just like me.
But jokes aside, she really is just like me because she has all the character flaws that I had when I was her age.
I gave her kind of more of the darker side of my personality.