His first work to gain significant attention was " The Egg", a short story that has been adapted into a number of YouTube videos, a one-act play, and is the overarching concept of Everybody, the third album by American rapper Logic. The attention these gained him has been attributed as later helping launch his writing career, following the failure to publish his first novel attempt called Theft of Pride. He also authored a humor web comic called Casey and Andy featuring fictionalized " mad scientist" versions of himself and his friends (such as writer Jennifer Brozek) from 2001 to 2008 he also briefly worked on another comic called Cheshire Crossing bridging Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppins. Weir began writing science fiction in his twenties and published work on his website for years. He worked as a programmer for several software companies, including AOL, Palm, MobileIron, and Blizzard, where he worked on the video game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.
Īfter high school, Weir studied computer science at the University of California, San Diego, though he did not graduate. At the age of 15, he began working as a computer programmer for Sandia National Laboratories. Weir grew up reading classic science fiction such as the works of Arthur C. He was an only child, and his parents divorced when he was eight. His father was a physicist and his mother was an electrical engineer.
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