Charting the desperate last-chance mission of a lone astronaut to safeguard our planet, Project Hail Mary is a riveting interstellar adventure from the bestselling author of The Martian.
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.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9781529157468
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 345 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
Brilliantly funny and enjoyable. One of the plausible science fiction books I've ever read - Tim Peake
Warm-hearted, surprising, unputdownable . . . The ultimate page turner - Daily Mail
If you like a lot of science in your science fiction, Andy Weir is the writer for you . . . This one has everything fans of old school SF (like me) love. - George R.R. Martin
Life-affirming [and] wonderfully well conceived - The Times
Weir's finest work to date . . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who, and know they'll love it. - Brandon Sanderson
As with Andy weir's first two books, the Martian and Artemis, this is extremely well written with a good use of genuine science mixed with intelligent science fiction. Now I loved the Martian book but I also... More
Really difficult to write a review for this without spoilers but let me just say that if you enjoyed The Martian, then you need to read this!!
There's a fair bit of science in this, but most of it made sense to...
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Project Hail Mary centres around Grace Holland, a man that wakes up on a space ship. He does not know who he is, where he is or why he is on a space ship. The only thing he knows is that he has been asleep for a very... More
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