Success through peer review

Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on how author Andy Weir used the “ask the audience” option to perfect his book, The Martian. Now turned into a blockbuster movie with Matt Damon.

“So how did a software engineer’s thought experiment, originally posted for free online, explode into a literary and cinematic blockbuster? One possible answer may be just as geeky as the novel itself: open-access peer review.”

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