Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is a masterpiece that completely blew my mind. It’s not just a story—it’s an adventure that takes you to another world, literally and figuratively. The blend of hard science and gripping storytelling kept me awake at night, unable to put it down. I found myself learning about physics, astronomy, and even chemistry in ways that were both fascinating and accessible. Andy Weir has a gift for making complex concepts feel exciting and integral to the plot. The story’s originality and the unexpected friendship between Ryland Grace and Rocky were so captivating that it made… show more.

I've loved science-fiction since my teens. Since then, I've read dozens of sci-fi books, and Project Hail Mary is by far now my favorite. At heart, it is a buddy story set in space: warmth, adventure, and togetherness suffuse the pages. As a psychiatrist-clinical neuroscience researcher, I found the science parts interesting, though some tech nical aspects were beyond my understanding. Never mind - they can easily be skipped. Altogether, this is a most delightful read.

This book paints fantastical pictures in the mind and explores what it is to be human. The relationship depicted in it has real warmth and compassion, something I always crave when reading. It takes us to far-away stars, while digging into the heart of existence.

I don't usually read this genre, but in Project Hail Mary, I loved how Andy Weir progressed- for lack of a better word- his characters through this novel. It is very hard to describe this novel... and I will not see the movie because the book is so brilliantly written.I don't want to spoil anything, but he seamlessly brings you into the main 2 character's worlds as they maneuver in and with each other. It's captivating how as the character's options decrease, the reader can easily go for the ride.

This is the worthy successor to The Martian and, in many ways, a much better book. It's infused with problem-solving, just like The Martian, but the plot is much more inventive, interesting and sophisticated. The unraveling of the central mystery is handled adroitly, the partnership the protagonist has to form is inventive and original. It is, without a doubt, a real page-turner, and the ending was (a) not what I predicted nd (b) much better.

From the moment I first began listening to the audiobook, I fell in love with this story. I was all in the moment Ryland Grace stumbled through answering the question “What is 2 plus 2?” The layering of the story, the threat to Earth concept, the educational presentation of very high-level scientific concepts to an audience of all ages, and the way Andy Weir made this reader feel so many emotions over a rock just keep drawing me back to it.

I literally just finished another listen less than a month ago and already want to go back to a… show more.

As I tell everyone I recommend this one to, I went in blind and it was quite a ride. I did not expect many twists in a sci-fi book, but it kept the thriller-lover in me on my toes waiting to see how things would turn out. I love books with small casts where we get deeply into the mindset of the main characters, and this was just that. I can't cay much without spoiling it, but I'm not even a sci-fi reader and this book flew to the top of my favorites list.

If Reamde is an international adventure, this book is an interstellar one. I don’t want to spoil anything about it, other than to say it is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. It’s a brilliant page-turner with the highest of possible stakes.

Andy Weir also wrote The Martian to give you an idea of the genre and feel of PHM. It’s everything a sci-fi book should be, and it definitely makes me wish we could reach for the stars. Don’t read anything about what this book is about. If you like sci-fi, just go in blind. It’s worth… show more.

Andy Weir was one of my favorite sci-fi authors the moment I finished reading The Martian, so I had to read his first contact novel as soon as it was published. As a hard science fiction fan, I appreciated that the author “did the math” when describing problems that arose and the solutions that were implemented during a do-or-die mission to save the Earth.

Having said that, math was one of my least favorite subjects in school, but the author made the technical details easy to understand and very interesting. I also appreciated that the extraterrestrial was written to… show more.