Book of the Month Preview: ‘Project Hail Mary’ by Andy Weir
Oh, hey, March!
If you’ve been with us for a while, you know how much we love our science fiction novels!
Maude Garrett has loved Andy Weir’s work since Maude’s Book Club began. In light of Weir’s more popular novel, Project Hail Mary, being released on March 20th, we have decided to bring it to our book club!
Our BOOK OF THE MONTH for March is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
Maude interviewed Andy Weir, and he shared that this was in development a couple of years ago!
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Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.
PROJECT HAIL MARY
BY ANDY WEIR
A LONE ASTRONAUT.
AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION.
AN ALLY HE NEVER IMAGINED.
RYLAND GRACE is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and 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?
An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
What PROJECT HAIL MARY Offers
friendship
scientific problem-solving
self-sacrifice
humanity and survival
memory and identity
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Join us for an in-depth discussion of Project Hail Mary on Thursday, March 13th, on Twitch from 5-7 p.m. PT.
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