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Project Hail Mary

Finished March 18, 2026
Project Hail Mary

Book Info

Author
Andy Weir
Type
Fiction
Published
2021
Pages
497
Genres
Sci-Fi, Thriller
ISBN
9780593135211
Added
May 23, 2026

My Rating

★ Favorite

My Review

One of my all-time, favorite reads. It’s what other sci-fi books should measure itself against. It has a great mix of deep character development, science rooted in research, and story-telling that keeps you on our toes. Will probably read five or six more times.

Book Summary

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 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.

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