Red Szell

And I was really struck by how Sigourney Weaver and the rest of the crew come out of suspended animation and they're kind of yawning and stretching and some of them are lighting cigarettes immediately and they get straight down to work.

And this totally and utterly gives the lie to that.

You've been in suspended animation for however long and induced coma, no less, for however long.

I think it's three years in Ryland's case.

Was it 13?

Yeah.

Aye.

You know, that bit passed me by because I was just so blown away by how clever it was, but also how medically correct it was.

Of course, you're not going to spring back to life, roll yourself a cigarette, pour yourself a cup of black coffee and get down to work.

You're going to be sitting there going, what the hell is going on?

Why am I here?

And also he's traumatized.

I don't think it's a spoiler to turn around and say that he finds the other two members of his crew didn't make it.

And I should imagine the first thing that, you know, you see being a couple of rotting corpses is probably not conducive to your feeling particularly happy about your mission, even if you can remember what that mission was.

be like as a character like the way the the synths the synth sounds sound like i think is what rocky's really meant to sound like it was fantastic yeah i'd be fascinated to know whether andy weir was actually consulted on the recording of this audio book i would i'd imagine he was because it does feel like a team effort you can tell that ray porter had

read the book through two or three times, marked it up for emphasis.

As you say, it's acted.

And he... I thought particularly the parts that were set on the Hail Mary were just...

It was like theatre.

It was gripping.