My lovely wife bought me a book she thought I'd like. 'The Martian' by Andy Weir.
It's supposedly the log and story of a member of a six person Mars Exploratory Team who gets left behind in an emergency departure. The technical aspects of his actions and outcomes were vetted by a number of space specialists and it's portrayed as being a very realistic scenario.
It's a rather sobering read for any who have volunteered for the Mars expedition. It's also been bought up for a movie in the near future.
Other than saying it's fast paced, quite action filled and I had difficulty putting it down I won't give any more story details but it was a damn good read.
If you see it anywhere ( Liz got it via Amazon I think ) I'd thoroughly recommend it.
