Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

By Andy Weir

  • Release Date: 2021-05-04
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 16,628 Ratings
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Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—from the author of The Martian.

HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES READER PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Parade, Newsweek, New York Public Library, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal

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?

Hailed by USA Today as “an epic story of redemption, discovery, and cool speculative sci-fi,” Project Hail Mary is an irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver.

Reviews

  • Best thing ever

    5
    By Himari Fujimoto
    It’s actually quite easy to comprehend. I’m reading this as a seventh grader, and it’s one of the few things that told me all about astronomy and so much more. I also rarely cry, and this made me cry so hard, like full on bawling. 10/10

  • Project Hail Mary

    5
    By DLM inWyo
    This is such a great book! Ok… a little much on the science and math, but hidden within the science and math is such humanity and humor. To all you science students out here… you never know how what you learn can come in handy… heck you might even save humanity and otheranities that exist in the Universe! I saw and loved the movie, and then picked up the book a few weeks ago. So many great details and moments were added to what I had seen. Don’t pass up this book. It is incredibly good! Ps I don’t know how Andy Weir can create such a fact based book AND also create such a lovable rock!

  • The BEST book ever written… In my opinion (Rocky Forever)

    5
    By …..gOaT
    I loved it so much no complaints such an amazing book I laughed and I actually cried first time I have cried reading a book usually from watching a movie like Finch which I also highly recommend. I hope there is a sequel to this book and can not wait to watch the movie!!!! Buy this book it is so good and this is coming from a person who does not like to read. I’m reading the Martian next. Thank you for reading this!! Rocky fist my bump I would love it if you were real I would love to learn from you. Space is the greatest thing ever seen from humans I am glad we have eyes to see our neighborhood. I could write a book on how great this book is!!! P.S. I hate writing and I just wrote an essay wow I am proud of myself. Anyway enjoy reading. If you had to scroll down a ton thank you for scrolling that much to read this. -April 8 …10/19/26 I wrote that review so long ago, but I’m gonna keep updating this every time I remember but just know to watch the movie before you read the book or you won’t like the movie as much because I made that mistake.

  • i never cried so much lol

    5
    By saaverine
    I never cried for a book at all! This was a lot of ups and downs. I read the book then watched the movie. I honestly would’ve been better without watching the movie. I would’ve preferred they made the movie longer to get the important facts from the book and to really add all the emotion. I love this book and have shared my thoughts to my cousins!! I have the other 2 books from this author in my library as well! :)

  • Why is it in Italian

    1
    By kurtisboyer
    I didn’t know it was in fricking Italian, and now I can’t even get a refund

  • Truth stretching

    3
    By Cwt29
    Entertaining. Provocative. Lots of science for anyone who wants to dig into it. But the prose is on an 8th grade level. Then there’s one glaring issue. According to Relativity, as I understand it, time is relative to the observer. So the faster you go, the slower time gets for you. Maybe I could do the math if I wanted to, but even if Tau Ceti is only 4 light years from Earth, everyone on Earth would be dead by the time the mission is completed.

  • Knowledge in Simple Words, Humanity in Heavy Speed

    5
    By Terry4Apple
    Knowledge in simple words, and humanity (should I say humanedianity?) in heavy (you know its light) speed. That’s it. My fifth-grade son finished this book in Independent Day holidays and he urged me to finish it ASAP. I made it today (a shy of 3 months later). A good one. I hope I had made the review crystal clear in the title. Yeah, though I still think it could be better if Grace meets Stratt somehow…

  • Out of this world!

    4
    By Husband & Father who reads
    I was hesitant going into this since I am new to reading as an adult but also new to sci-fi (Red Rising being my only book in the genre) but I read the sample and was instantly hooked. So I bought it. This one was a very engaging read. The way the author handles the story always leaves you at the edge of your seat. What I also really loved about the book is that there are a lot of real components to the space portion. Which makes it so easy to follow since I enjoy Astronomy. As well as him staying as close to real science as he can. I will say the ending wasn’t what I hoped for but it wasn’t disappointing. It didn’t leave me regretting the book. I genuinely enjoyed this read and I 100% recommend this book. I can’t wait to watch the movie now.

  • Fav book, love the writing

    5
    By stvto7
    Best book I’ve ever had hands-down

  • LOVED this book, recommended it to my brother, he loves it too!

    5
    By RideSolo
    Love this book! It’s a masterfully constructed yarn that is exceedingly thorough and seamless in it’s logic and construction. I consider this to be a true masterpiece of SciFi writing. Very well done, Mr Weir, very well done! You aren’t on your way to being one of the Science Fiction all-time greats, you’re already there!

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