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Since the publication of Defoe’s novel  Robinson Crusoe  (1719) a steady stream of adaptations reproduced, reimagined, and/or subverted key elements of the genre it set off. Charged with layers of discourse, “each age […] reveals the robinsonade that best fits its needs” (Fisher 2018. “Innovation and Imitation in the Eighteenth-Century Robinsonade.” In The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe, edited by J. J. Richetti, 99–111. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 104). Consider, for example, Andy Weir’s science-fiction (sf) novel  The Martian  (2014) where a high degree of intertextuality to Defoe’s novel is juxtaposed with the absence of a native other. By treating  The Martian  as a deliberate revisitation of prior works (cf. Hutcheon 2006). I aim to investigate marked and unmarked intertextuality according to Sanders’s model of complex filtration of cultural narratives (2015).  The Martian  invites us to revisit Defoe’s novel as a site of cultural significance for the present-day concern of what it takes to sustain human life.

Robinson Crusoe – But on Mars: Investigating Intertextuality in Andy Weir’s The Martian ( 2014 )