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The Martian: How to Survive the Red Planet And the Rabid Sherlock at the Same Time (Ended And Revised Now) by ShelleyY
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, The Martian - Andy Weir, Sherlock (BBC TV 2010)
29 May 2026
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Let me get this straight: I was just an average American military doctor who was fortunately selected by NASA to be a Mars-bound astronaut, for I had a bachelor’s degree in Plant Biology and Conservation and a medical doctorate, plain and simple — no fancy extras.
But my mission partner, called Sherlock Holmes was a British nobleman with three PhD degrees: Physical Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science.
Cue an unusually catastrophic sandstorm and the subsequent devastating explosion, and suddenly we were both stranded on this red rock, which meant I had to put up with the most intelligent yet most intolerable person I had ever met at all times!
I think it could all boil down to Mycroft’s fault!
Oh, did I forget to mention? Mycroft Holmes, the Earl, was Sherlock Holmes’s brother. You know, the guy who always dressed like the British government in human form. He spoke to Sherlock as if he were a judge sending his own brother into exile.
Could you imagine any normal older brother talking like that to his younger brother before a dangerous mission?
His exact valediction?