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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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#1 New York Times Bestseller • Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—from the author of The Martian.

Hugo Award Finalist • New York Times Reader Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of the Year's Best Books: Parade, Newsweek, New York Public Library, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal

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?

Hailed by USA Today as "an epic story of redemption, discovery, and cool speculative sci-fi," Project Hail Mary is an irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver.

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—from the author of The Martian.

Hugo Award Finalist • New York Times Reader Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of the Year's Best Books: Parade, Newsweek, New York Public Library, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal

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?

Hailed by USA Today as "an epic story of redemption, discovery, and cool speculative sci-fi," Project Hail Mary is an irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver.

  • Publisher: Ballantine Books

    Title: Project Hail Mary

    Author: Andy Weir

    On Sale Date: May 4, 2021

    ISBN 13: 978-0-593-13520-4

    ISBN 10: 0-593-13520-2

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $32.00

    BISAC: Related Genres (PRH): Science Fiction; Mystery & Thriller

    Page Count: 496

    Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.55 x 1.61 in

    Weight: 1.69 lb

  • Andy Weir came to novel-writing sideways: he spent his career as a software engineer—leaving a computer science program at UC San Diego without finishing to code professionally at companies including AOL and Blizzard Entertainment—before self-publishing his first novel, The Martian, as a free serial on his own website. Reader demand pushed him to put it on Kindle for 99 cents; it climbed the bestseller charts, caught a literary agent's attention, and became a #1 New York Times bestseller and a Ridley Scott film starring Matt Damon. Weir followed it with Artemis and then Project Hail Mary, which won the 2022 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year, earned a Hugo Award nomination, and is now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016.

  • Critics are calling it propulsive, funny, and profound:

    • "A crowd-pleaser on the grandest scale." — The Boston Globe

    • "Funny, well plotted, and full of surprises." — The Guardian

    • "An epic story of redemption, discovery, and cool speculative sci-fi." — USA Today

    • "A science fiction masterwork." — Kirkus Reviews

This book is for you if

  • You loved The Martian's "one clever person solves impossible science problems" energy and want it turned up to eleven, in deep space.

  • You want a mystery that unspools one memory at a time—amnesia, two dead crewmates, and no idea why you're the one tasked with saving humanity.

  • You're looking for hard science fiction that's actually funny, propulsive, and easy to devour in a weekend.

  • You want to read the book before you see Ryan Gosling in the 2026 film adaptation.

  • You want a genuinely surprising, uplifting story about friendship and problem-solving under the most extreme stakes imaginable.

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