Project Hail Mary
Ballantine Books
ISBN 9781529157468
eISBN 9780593135211
ASIN B08FHBV4ZX
This volume came recommended to me from a few different sources. I read it while on Christmas break, I split listening to it while at a hockey tournament and reading while in a vehicle travelling to see family. It worked well using text to speech to listen to it, and reading it was a pleasure. The story took me by surprise and I really enjoyed it. I have not read or watched The Martian, but will give it a go after reading this volume. The description of this volume is:
“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.”
This story is written in an interesting style, our protagonist, Ryland Grace, wakes up with no memory of how or why they are where they are. But they remember enough to know they are on a mission to save humanity and the sole surviving member of the mission. At first he does not even remember his name, but he does remember science, and starts piecing things together.
The story is written in a classic science fiction style. It some ways it feels like it could be part of C.S. Lewis’s science fiction series. It also reminds me of the works of Alfred Bester and some of Herbert’s non Dune novellas.
The pace of the story is interesting in that it speeds up and slows down several times. This happens while the science is being done, and when emergencies occur. It is the story of friendship, even with the strangest of creatures. It is the story of survival, and saving different species. And it is the story of Ryland finding out who he really is. It is an excellent read I can easily recommend for fans of science fiction.
Books by Andy Weir:
Artemis
The Martian
Cheshire Crossing
Project Hail Mary
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