Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Description
A lone astronaut.
An impossible mission.
An ally he never imagined.
‘The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years’ GUARDIAN
‘Weir’s finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who, and know they’ll love it.’ BRANDON SANDERSON
‘If you like a lot of science in your science fiction, Andy Weir is the writer for you. . . This one has everything fans of old school SF (like me) love.’ GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
‘Brilliantly funny and enjoyable. One of the most plausible science fiction books I’ve ever read‘ TIM PEAKE, astronaut
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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?
This book will be discussed at our meeting on 20 April 2026
Coming soon to the Burton Book Club…
- Quicksilver, Callie Hart
- V for Victory, Lissa Evans
- Gone before Goodbye, Harlan Coben & Reese Witherspoon
- Give me the Child, Mel McGrath
- The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
- Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
- The Elopement, Gill Hornby
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