![]() ‘Eyesore,’ like it makes your eyes sore to look at.” I was like, “Oh, I never even realized that that’s what it meant.” And Dad’s like, “I want to know how you thought ‘eyesore’ was spelled” and I said, “I thought it was spelled I-C-O-R.” And Dad said, “Well, that spells ‘icur.'” That was a fun little embarrassing moment for me, and that’s how I learned how to spell “eyesore. The Apollo Murders (2021) ( Apollo Murders, book 1) Chris Hadfield 'An exciting journey to an alternate past. ![]() He said, “It’s ‘eyesore.'” And I’m like, “Well, that’s not how ‘eyesore’ is spelled.” He’s like, “Yeah it is. Andy Weir is still riding on the coattails of The Martians fame, but I’m getting dubious that he’ll ever recapture that same magic. ![]() And I was reading the comics in front of my dad, and in one of the comics, the guy said, “Something, something, that’s an eyesore.“ And I looked at it and I said, “Hmm, what is he saying here? What is this word?” Dad looked at it. Her short fiction had been published in Popular Science, WIRED, Tor.com, and Clarkesworld. Jesimin is a Hugo Award-winning novelist known for the Broken Earth novels and her speculative short fiction. Something I once thought I knew that I found out I was hilariously wrong about was how to spell the word “eyesore.” This is around the time I was 15 or 16 years old. Nora K Jesimin is the author of Emergency Skin the third novel of the Forward Collection series. The book’s plot hinges on a space mold that devours the sun’s energy. And I might have even liked this book a little better, except for his writing (again) in the first person. The thriller, published in 2017 follows Jazz, a twenty. His third book titled Artemis is about a female protagonist, set on the Moon in the 2080s-2090s. Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist and former computer programmer. This week, Andy Weir, the New York Times bestselling author of the novels “The Martian” and “Artemis,” tells us how his father enlightened him with a spelling lesson. When Andy Weir was writing his new novel, Project Hail Mary, he stumbled into a thorny physics problem. Ive never seen Andy Weir interviewed, but Im beginning to think he must be as glib as all of his main characters are - all of them are never without a smart-mouth answer. About the Author of Artemis PDF Andy Taylor Weir. Every week on “Make Me Smart” we ask an expert, celebrity, author or other prominent figure: “What’s something you thought you knew but later found out you were wrong about?” It’s called the Make Me Smart question.
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