The bestselling book, The Martian, by author Andy Weir, has a Red Sox connection that happened years before noted Red Sox fan Matt Damon was cast to play the lead in the hit book-to-screen adaptation directed by Ridley Scott in 2015. Weir was recently a guest on Neil deGrasse Tyson's podcast StarTalk and revealed where Damon’s character’s name came from, and it’s all because Weir lived in Boston when he wrote his debut novel. Here’s what the writer had to say about the name.
