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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:29th Sep '22

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL
A BARRACK OBAMA READING PICK

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?

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, 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.

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'One of the most original, compelling, and fun voyages I've ever taken.' ERNEST CLINE, author of Ready Player One and Ready Player Two

'Undisputedly the best book I've read in a very, very long time. Mark my words: Project Hail Mary is destined to become a classic.' BLAKE CROUCH

'Andy Weir's brilliant...

Brilliantly funny and enjoyable. One of the plausible science fiction books I've ever read * Tim Peake *
Warm-hearted, surprising, unputdownable . . . The ultimate page turner * Daily Mail *
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 *
Life-affirming [and] wonderfully well conceived * The Times *
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 *
The most enjoyable hard SF I ave read in years: funny, well plotted and full of surprises. * The Guardian *
One of the most original, compelling, and fun voyages I've ever taken. Weir imbues every page of this rollicking adventure with an unabashed love and respect for science, while giving us a prescient glimpse of where it could take us and how it might save us. * Ernest Cline *

Andy Weir's brilliant Project Hail Mary...is one of those stirring sci-fi novels about every government on Earth banding together, through science, to save civilization from collapse. I loved it.

-- Hugo Rifkind * The Times *
[Weir] has a gift for making astrophysics and the like not just painless but fascinating . . . hard to put down. * Sunday Telegraph, novel of the week *
Charting the desperate last-chance mission of a lone astronaut to safeguard our planet, Project Hail Mary is a riveting interstellar adventure * Waterstones *

ISBN: 9781529157468

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm

Weight: 345g

496 pages