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Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
⚠️WARNING⚠️
Do not start this book when you have other things to do, because after about chapter 5, putting it down will be torture.
It’s hard to write a review for Project Hail Mary without spoiling it so I will say this: it is compelling, interesting, “hard” science fiction (by that I mean there are whole passages about math and physics and biology). It is emotional on a “Earth is in peril” scale as well as a personal “my friend is in danger” scale. It’s like The Martian, The Andromeda Strain and Turner and Hooch (a buddy cop movie from the 80s) got together and had a book baby.
I was fully ready to skim over some boring science stuff but didn’t have to, and I’m not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination. I know other reviews have noted that the science in this is heavy, but I didn’t feel like it was beyond what I was expecting and it was well explained, not too dense.
Do not start this book when you have other things to do, because after about chapter 5, putting it down will be torture.
It’s hard to write a review for Project Hail Mary without spoiling it so I will say this: it is compelling, interesting, “hard” science fiction (by that I mean there are whole passages about math and physics and biology). It is emotional on a “Earth is in peril” scale as well as a personal “my friend is in danger” scale. It’s like The Martian, The Andromeda Strain and Turner and Hooch (a buddy cop movie from the 80s) got together and had a book baby.
I was fully ready to skim over some boring science stuff but didn’t have to, and I’m not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination. I know other reviews have noted that the science in this is heavy, but I didn’t feel like it was beyond what I was expecting and it was well explained, not too dense.