Project Hail Mary Book Cover

Project Hail Mary


A Science Fiction Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Space Adventure,
  • First Contact
Buy from Amazon

Read Sample

This book is for you if you're into...

  • Amnesia-driven space survival and a ticking clock
  • Science puzzles explained by a teacher stranded light-years from earth
  • Unexpected alien friendships that redefine what first contact means

From Little Stack

A high-school science teacher goes to space and saves the human race from destruction. It may sound silly, but anyone who’s read Project Hail Mary knows just how marvelous the book is. The fact that it’s narrated by the teacher means we (the layperson reader) get a simplified explanation of grand, immensely complex astrophysics and engineering and biology. We also get introduced to Rocky, one of the quirkiest and most delightful alien creatures to ever grace the pages of a sci-fi novel. Immensely entertaining and gripping from start to finish.

Publisher Description

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?

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, 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.

More Andy Weir

Follow This Author

Sign up & we'll email you when a new title is available for pre-order or hits the bookshelf

Little Stacks of Science Fiction

Get Free & Discounted eBooks

Curated reads, irresistible prices—subscribe now

Add this book to your To Be Read list

Sign up to build your personal library

Archive This Book

Sign up to build your personal library