The end of the book leaves us with a lot of questions. How does he cope with Mars? How does he reconnect with the crew on the way home? How does he return to normalcy? No slash. No sex at all. PTSD, anxiety, and lots of wiseass remarks.

Chris and Beth's daughter is too sick to go on a daddy-daughter date with Chris. Uncle Mark Watney thinks this is unacceptable and fixes things.

"Of all the Ares missions so far, Ares III's mission logs would be the ones to remember." A glance into the life of the Ares III crew after the dramatic rescue of Mark Watney, and what follows when he becomes pen pals with a certain SatCon engineer.