Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
I purchased a paperback copy of Project Hail Mary when the film started at the cinema. I haven’t seen the film yet as I wanted to read the book first and although I don’t tend to gravitate towards Sci-Fi I really, really, loved this story!
This book is quite science heavy but not in an overwhelming way. I didn’t understand a lot of it but that didn’t hinder my enjoyment in any way. Ryland Grace is a brilliant character and one I warmed to immediately. His reaction to the situation he finds himself in is very believable. His story is fascinating to follow. It is quite hilarious a lot of the time, which I loved.
I love the woman who decided to send him on this mission (her name escapes me, sorry, because I finished this book a while ago now). She absolutely takes no prisoners. She could probably stop any war with just a look! Lol! Excellent character! We need more people like her in this world.
My favourite character by far though is Rocky! What a dude! No idea what he is really, and he’d probably frighten me to death in real life, but he grew on me very quickly and I love the friendship him and Ryland develop alongside working towards to the same goal. Genius writing! I absolutely loved it and I can’t wait to watch the film now.
A lone astronaut.
An impossible mission.
An ally he never imagined.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian — while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
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