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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

496 pages (~12 hr)16h 10m
First published 2021·Ballantine Books·Science Fiction

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission. He wakes alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there, only to discover that he's been sent to save the Earth from an...

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For the friend who liked The Martian but wants the stakes turned up to interstellar.

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Weir found the perfect formula: put a smart person alone with impossible problems and let us watch them science their way out. Every chapter is a dopamine hit of problem→solution→bigger problem. I read it in one sitting and I'm not sorry.

Press Into Hands
For the friend who liked The Martian but wants the stakes turned up to interstellar.

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