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This guy is going around on Reddit claiming Andy Weir (writer of The Martian) is taking full credit for The Egg when it was a convo they had on a forum

https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/t0l6cu/andy_weir_plagiarized_the_egg/

Drama in the comments.

Also posted in spirituality to set the record straight.

https://old.reddit.com/r/spirituality/comments/tj28yk/the_untold_true_story_of_andy_weirs_inspiration/

While those threads were from two years ago, he hasn't quit his campaign.

He's posted in /r/consciousness recently

https://old.reddit.com/r/consciousness/comments/1bijjt0/is_it_possible_that_each_consciousness_is_the/kvqtv91/?context=8

Eleven days ago he added a comment

>Yeah, there's definitely something fishy. The film The Martian (2015) was sued for infringement. A screenwriter from Russia named Mikhail Raskhodnikov wrote a screenplay called The Martian in 2008 about a cosmonaut stranded on Mars who is rescued. He shopped it around different studios who all passed.

>Fox won the lawsuit because the movie was based on the 2011 book.

>I suspect Weir somehow got his hands on the script and turned it into a novel. I wouldn't even be surprised if someone at the studio put him up to it.