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.Īnd with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone.Īn irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, 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. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. When his memory slowly comes back he remembers that he is on a mission to save Earth. It also won the 2021 best science fiction novel award from Amazon and Goodreads. Hail Mary is a fairly light-hearted story about a scientist turned middle school teacher who wakes up in a space craft months after being in a coma only to find that his fellow astronauts are dead and he is left to figure out why he is there. Like The Martian and Artemis, the book has a propulsive story line and is filled with. Andy Weir's science fiction novel 'Project Hail Mary' has been topping bestseller lists. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. No surprise: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir’s latest science fiction space adventure, is a bestseller. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.Īll he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. ABOUT THE AUTHOR ANDY WEIR built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Įxcept that right now, he doesn't know that. Project Hail Mary is a fast-paced scientific mystery and survival story that applies real-world science to a high-stakes sci-fi adventure.

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