{"id":10559,"date":"2015-05-09T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2015-05-09T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:41:40","slug":"h2m-videos-interview-with-andrew-weir-the-martian-a-sci-fi-writers-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10559","title":{"rendered":"H2M videos: Interview with Andrew Weir (&#8220;The Martian&#8221;) + A sci-fi writers panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organization\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploremars.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Explore Mars<\/a> hosted the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/h2m.exploremars.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Humans to Mars (H2M) Summit<\/a> symposium\u00a0this past week in Washington D.C. Videos of the presentations and panels are available online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/7167144\/exploremars2015\" target=\"_d\">ExploreMars 2015 on Livestream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This video, for example, includes an entertaining interview (starting at 47:30) with Andrew Weir, author of the best seller, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553418025?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0553418025\" target=\"_d\">The Martian<\/a><\/em>, which is being made into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3659388\/\" target=\"_blank\">a movie<\/a> by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/7167144\/events\/4007387\/videos\/86251836\/player?width=480&amp;height=270&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;mute=true\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below\u00a0is a video of five\u00a0science fiction authors talking about Mars, its role in sci-fi, and the role of sci-fi in getting people excited about going to Mars:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>From Sci-Fi to Reality<\/strong> &#8211; Moderator: Catherine Asaro (Science Fiction Author; Sigma Member); Panel: Geoffrey Landis (NASA; Science Fiction Author; Sigma Member); Charles Gannon (Science Fiction Author; Sigma Member); Bud Sparhawk (Science Fiction Author; Sigma Member); Tom Ligon (Science Fiction Author; Sigma Member) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/7167144\/events\/4007387\/videos\/86432015\/player?width=480&amp;height=270&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;mute=true\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organization\u00a0Explore Mars hosted the annual Humans to Mars (H2M) Summit symposium\u00a0this past week in Washington D.C. Videos of the presentations and panels are available online:\u00a0ExploreMars 2015 on Livestream. This video, for example, includes an entertaining interview (starting at 47:30) with Andrew Weir, author of the best seller, The Martian, which is being made into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">H2M videos: Interview with Andrew Weir (&#8220;The Martian&#8221;) + A sci-fi writers panel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,38,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Kj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11236,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11236","url_meta":{"origin":10559,"position":0},"title":"Video: New trailer for the movie &#8220;The Martian&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A new trailer has been released for the movie, The Martian, which will be in theaters starting October 2nd: https:\/\/youtu.be\/ej3ioOneTy8 The book was written by Andy Weir. 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