Project Hail Mary

Title: Project Hail Mary

Score: 5/5

Published in: 2021

Author: Andy Weir

Date read: 21st June 2025

Genre: Science fiction

Comments:
The only other book that I had read by this author was The Martian so this book had some pretty big shoes to fill. It began brilliantly and gripped me straight away. I have to admit that I went through a brief period of "hang on, this seems very familiar" but it turned out to be very different indeed. Andy Weir manages this story skilfully in revealing bits about the past just a bit at a time which adds to the development of the overall tale. This process adds shock and surprise as well as I have read anywhere else.
As always, I avoid any kind of spoilers, and I will continue that here, but as I was getting closer to the end two things were worrying me. Firstly, "has he left enough pages to successfully finish the story?" and "how will this end?" There were a variety of options that I could see, some to much of a disaster, some too "Disney", needless to say, I think that the ending was perfect. Highly recommend!