LINKDING

<blockquote>Mark is back among his crew. How does he handle it? How do they? Snapshots and practicalities as the Hermes crew returns to Earth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The first few days on the Hermes, everyone is still getting used to having Mark back.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mark Watney never manages to make contact with Earth and NASA never realizes that he survived the storm and evacuation on Sol 6. So, needless to say, the crew of the Ares IV is incredibly surprised when they land on Mars to find a scruffy, malnourished, mentally unbalanced, but still-alive astronaut waiting for them.</blockquote> ➤ There are sequels but I don't find them nearly as compelling

<blockquote>“Hey Hermes!” The ambient suspicion level in the Rec ratcheted up significantly. Kapoor was disturbingly cheerful. “We’ve sent you some mission updates in the data dump, but Mitch and I wanted to personally let you know—” Mitch visibly rolled his eyes in the background. “—That thanks to some…strong suggestions from the White House, and on Annie and Director Sanders’ recommendation, we’ve started releasing Watney’s Mars logs to the public.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>ARES 3 by-AresIII Boy's onboard. We're headin' home.</blockquote> ➤ I mean, how are you supposed to have a lander for a gas planet? But other than that detail it's a really great fic

<blockquote>You can go home again, but it's going to take seven months.</blockquote>