[schoen]

Just read The Martian recently. It was recommended to me as extremely detail-oriented.

It is extremely detail-oriented. :-)

Fun and engrossing if you like super-hard science fiction. (I sure seemed to, although I glossed over a few of the details in the middle.)

I was going to say that Kerbal Space Program fans would probably like it, but actually now I really want to say that NetHack fans would probably like it. (What is the effect of breaking a +6 wand of oxygen scrubbing? What happens if you dip a cursed ring of radiothermal generation into a blessed potion of liquid nitrogen? How much nutrition can you get from a partly eaten food ration?)

[jaymon]

I've added it to my list of books to inspire my kids. So if they ever come to me and say, "Dad, what is chemistry good for?" I can just give them The Martian and say, "read this and you'll know"

[schoen]

Calculating limiting reagents as if your life depended on it!

[KhalilK]

I am curious to know what other books are on that list.