<p>He plays a different kind of geek.</p> Photographer: Alex B. Huckle/Getty Images Culture
Andy Weir’s " The Martian ," the novel on which the hit movie is based, offers almost no physical description of its characters. It reflects the nerd value code: What people think and do matters. What they look like doesn’t.
So all that readers find out about Rich Purnell, the astrodynamicist who concocts a brilliant maneuver to rescue the stranded astronaut Mark […]
