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Andy Weir's "The Martian" is absolutely fucking brilliant rationalist fiction, and it was published in paper book format a few days ago.
I pre-ordered it because I love his short story The Egg, not knowing I'd get a super-rationalist protagonist in a radical piece of science porn that downright worships space travel. Also, fart jokes. I love it, and if you're an LW type of guy, you probably will too.
I couldn't stand The Egg, will I still enjoy The Martian?
That is probably very dependent on your reasons for not standing The Egg.
They're completely different from each other - that's why I was so surprised. I do not expect enjoyment of the two to correlate much.
I imagine there's a better (and positive) correlation between enjoying the movie Gravity and enjoying The Martian.