Why did I love this book?
Talk about a book I could not put it down. In Project Hail Mary, Weir starts with his main character waking up without any memory of who or where he is.
As he slowly regains knowledge of the who, where, and why, Weir takes us on a journey which (as he did in The Martian) requires his main character to muster all his ingenuity and fortitude (along with a lot of cool science) to survive and... well, I don't want to spoil it. Pick this up. You won't be able to put it down.
43 authors picked Project Hail Mary as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
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…