Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Nov. 8th, 2021 15:35
Author: Andy Weir
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 5/5
# pages: Audiobook ~16hrs, 476 pages
Date read: November 2021, May 2023, April 2025
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, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. 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.
And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.
Without a doubt the best book I've read so far this year. Andy Weir blew me away with this one. I loved "The Martian" but thought "Artemis" was only okay, so was a bit hesitant to start this one, but oh wow! I was hooked from the very start, and listened to it at every chance I got. The audiobook was narrated by Ray Porter who did an amazing job.
It's best not to know too much about the story going into it, so I'll just leave it at that I loved Grace, I loved Rocky and I wish the book had been much, much longer than it was. I couldn't put it down, but didn't want to see it end.
Awesome book!