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Project Hail Mary Is Brilliant... And That Worries Me
Project Hail Mary looks like a science fiction survival story about saving Earth. Andy Weir is doing something more interesting underneath the equations and engineering: asking what heroism looks like when the person carrying humanity’s last hope never chose to become a hero in the first place.Ryland Grace wakes aboard a spacecraft with no memory of his identity or mission. As those memories return, he discovers that Earth faces an extinction-level threat and that he was sent across interstellar space in search of a solution. The novel turns that crisis into a sequence of scientific problems…
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