Project Hail Mary: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, Oct 4, 2022 - Fiction - 496 pages
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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.

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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.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
20
Section 3
34
Section 4
54
Section 5
74
Section 6
100
Section 7
121
Section 8
136
Section 17
277
Section 18
292
Section 19
308
Section 20
326
Section 21
342
Section 22
363
Section 23
382
Section 24
395

Section 9
154
Section 10
169
Section 11
185
Section 12
198
Section 13
214
Section 14
232
Section 15
250
Section 16
262
Section 25
409
Section 26
428
Section 27
438
Section 28
443
Section 29
453
Section 30
470
Section 31
479
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About the author (2022)

Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.

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