He has got to figure out where he is, what he is supposed to be doing, why things feel off and why there are two other people in beds that have been dead awhile.

All he knows is the computer isn’t very smart and keeps knocking him out when he answers a question wrong. Ryland Grace wakes up in a room with no recollection of how he got there and what he is supposed to be doing. I loved The Martian, in fact it made my top 5 the year it was published, and Andy Weir has captured that same magic for me again in Project Hail Mary. Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, 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 Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.Īnd thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. 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.

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. Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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