(Ballantine Books)The title of Andy Weir’s latest sci-fi thriller immediately imparts a good sense of the plot, taking its name from the common American idiom which refers to a desperate attempt at a very long football pass that has only a small chance of success. Ryland Grace, once a somewhat-disgraced microbiologist who is teaching high school science, has just woken up from a coma? Actually, he has no idea what he has just woken up from nor any idea where he is. He soon discerns he’s in a space vehicle o … (read more)
