7/4/2023 0 Comments Project hail mary book reviewIt is steeped in real scientific paraphernalia that borders on academic tedium but as much as it dives deep into sometimes inaccessible language it balances itself with helpful analogies, metaphors, humor, and emotional introspection. This book is not only amazingly written from a technical standpoint it is also amazing fun to read. I have to stop writing about the plot in order to not ruin the experience of reading it. The slew of discoveries and surprises that he encounters on his journey through space are almost entirely worth not spoiling here. For example, he is somewhat of an expert on Extra-Vehicular Spacesuits or EVAs which is not something he knew how to use back on Earth when he was a high school science teacher. During this process, he also finds out that he has specific skills suited to his new astronomical profession that he doesn’t remember learning. The main character’s name is Ryland Grace and he wakes up with no memory of how he got where he is, which is in a spaceship (not really a spoiler if you saw the cover) and he spends the rest of the book piecing together the events that led up to him being alone on the spaceship.
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