Project Hail Mary
2021 · Andy Weir · 476 pages · Science Fiction
Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir at his most confident and his most emotionally ambitious. The science is dense but accessible, the central relationship hits harder than most readers expect, and the pacing keeps pages turning even when the exposition slows. Secondary characters are thin and the problem-solving tilts optimistic to a fault, but neither issue derails what the book actually sets out to do. It's the kind of science fiction that makes people want to recommend it to friends who don't usually read science fiction, and that's a narrow club to belong to.