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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

#1312 of 8,085 books · #281 in Science Fiction

Won the Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2021). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Project Hail Mary was a New York Times bestseller and a New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal best book. 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 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 the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he?

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
ISBN-13
9798217299461
Topics
SurvivalSpace explorationScientific problem-solvingMemory and identityFirst contact

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