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'REMEMBER : 'YOU HAVE SOMETHING LIKE 100 TRILLION NEUTRINOS passing through you, personally, every second,'' he said excitedly. ''Just being emitted by the sun.''

When Andy Weir was writing his new novel, ''Project Hail Mary,'' he stumbled upon a thorny physics problem.

The book's plot hinges on space mold that devours the sun's energy threatening all life on Earth, and that propels itself by bashing neutrinos together. He needed to figure out how much energy would be produced by two of those subatomic particles colliding.

Most sci-fi writers would err on the side of fiction rather than science. But Weir has never been satisfied with fictional solutions to scientific quandaries. He eventually figured out the number he needed for a single sentence - to describe the wavelength of 25, 98 microns - and, in the process, learned a lot about Neutrinos.

A self-described ''lifelong space nerd,'' Weir grew up in the Bay Area, where his father worked as a particle physicist, and his mother as an electrical engineer. They moved frequently, and he entertained himself with computers.

He studied computer science at the University of California, San Diego, but ran out of tuition money before completing his degree. He went into programming and worked at a video game company at AOL.

When he got the idea for ''The Martian'' in 2009, Weir was living alone in Boston, working for a mobile game company. He started to think about what it would take for a person to survive, alone, on a hostile planet. [It involved lots of biochemistry, duct tape, swearing and farming with human waste.]

AUTHOR ANDY WEIR HAS MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF among some very hard-core sci-fi fans for his dazzlingly detailed explanation of the quantum physics, chemistry, engineering, aerodynamics, and rocket science underpinning the plots in his novels.

While writing his blockbuster debut. ''The Martian,'' he built software to calculate the constant thrust trajectories for a spaceship's ion engine, studied NASA satellite images to map out his astronaut character's 3,200- plus- kilometer course across Mars, and gave a detailed formula for how to make water out of oxygen and hydrazine.

For his second novel, ''Artemis,'' a thriller about a heist that takes place on the moon, Weir figured out how lunar settlers could make oxygen and aluminum by smelting a mineral called anorthite, and calculated the cost of shipping various goods to the moon [$4,652 per kilogram].

''He literally does the math for the idea first and then builds the drama around it,'' said Aditya Sood, a producer who worked on the film adaption of ''The Martian.''

For a sci-fi writer who prizes facts over fiction, Weir is taking a leap further into the speculative with his new novel, published by Ballintine. Set in another solar system, ''Project Hail Mary'' opens as the narrator, Ryland Grace, wakes up in what looks like a hospital room, with the remains of his two crewmates.

He figures out he's on a spaceship, and his memory returns, Grace realizes the magnitude of his mission; Earth and its inhabitants face extinction as the alien microorganism devours the sun's photons, and to save humanity he must find a cure in another solar system.

Even with a far-fetched scenario, Weir was determined to make the math and particle physics in the novel accurate, down to the quantum level. Still, he worries that he might turn some people off with the story that features space travel, aliens and a ridiculously high-stakes mission. ''I don't want to alienate my readers with something too fantastical.'' he said.

Judging by the early accolades, ''Project Hail Mary'' seems to be resonating. A film adaptation from the producers and screenwriters who made ''The Martian'' is underway, with Ryan Gosling signed to play Grace. A starred review in Kirkus called the novel ''nothing short of science-fiction masterwork.''

Sci-fi and feature writers like Earnest Cline, Brandon Sanderson and George R.R. have given Weir exuberant blurbs.

Where Andy is unique is he writes some of the hardest hard science fiction, there's so much science in his stuff that, but he does it in service of the story,'' Martin, the author of the best-selling, ''The Song'' of Ice and Fire'' fantasy series that spawned the HBO series 'Game of Thrones' said in an interview.

''No one does it as well as he does.''

The Honor and Serving of Great Operational Research on Great Writings and Writers of Science -Fiction, continues. The World Students Society thanks author Alexandra Alter.

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