An edition of Project Hail Mary (2021)

Project Hail Mary

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An edition of Project Hail Mary (2021)

Project Hail Mary

  • 4.5 (153 ratings)
  • 729 Want to read
  • 30 Currently reading
  • 234 Have read

The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and 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 th enearest 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 imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discvoery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian-while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. --

Publish Date
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
496

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Project Hail Mary
May 04, 2021, Random House Large Print
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May 04, 2021, Ballantine Books
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Book Details


First Sentence

""What's two plus two?""

Edition Notes

Source title: Project Hail Mary: A Novel

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3623.E4324494P76, PS3623.E4324494 P76 2021

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Number of pages
496

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL30036715M
ISBN 10
0593135202
ISBN 13
9780593135204
LCCN
2020015821
OCLC/WorldCat
1149223512
Wikidata
Q107545582

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL21745884W
BookBrainz
2303972b-c218-40f1-8f75-9fa27190020f
Wikidata
Q106852836
MusicBrainz
2c38627b-f091-4b27-a33b-4f08bf3c1b58
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2848254, 3170784, 2921045, 2945257, 2907382, 2872322, 3418977, 3418979
LibraryThing
25215827

Work Description

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.

Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, 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.

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