Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Review by Josh40/100Read July 17, 2022
Wait for the movie, then don’t waste your time on that either.
If this was just a mediocre sci-fi adventure book I’d have given three stars (four if it was funny). It gets two starts because of the thread of authoritarian politics underlying the bad writing.
Wooden dialogue, two dimensional characters and tedious, yet predictable plot. On a positive note, it's short.
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…
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and books like it