Book: Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #9 (a book with a type-c character) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #44 (literary device: personification).
Imagine waking up alone in a strange room, with no memory of who you are or where you are. Piece by piece it starts to come back.
You are alone, you are on a spaceship, your name is Ryland Grace, and you’re humanity’s last hope.
This is where Project Hail Mary starts – with humanity’s last hope alone aboard a ship, scrambling to remember what his mission is, and what he is meant to be doing.
His crewmates have died, and he is all alone. Or is he?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: when science fiction and fantasy are done well, they are my all-time favourite genres.
I listened to the audiobook version of this story, narrated by Ray Porter, and would highly recommend the experience. He brought the science, the predicament, and the humour to life in his narration.
Project Hail Mary is a story of many things – of sustainability, of environmental ethics, of our planet’s fragility, and of the beauty of discovery. It is also a story of friendship and sacrifice – and what one is willing to give up for those they care about as well as the greater good.
One of the things that amazes me about some of the science fiction I’ve read lately (most notably, To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers as well as this story), is how much legitimate science goes into the creation of these stories. I felt like I was getting a (fun) basic science 101 lesson alongside the more fantastical elements of the story.
All in all, Project Hail Mary is hands down one of the funniest science fiction novels I have ever read or listened to. It will make you laugh, smile and tear up and different points along the story.
I cannot recommend it enough.
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