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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Ryland Grace wakes up in a spaceship. He has two dead bodies to keep him company and robotic arms to move things around, but he doesn’t know who he is or what he’s doing there. His memory is not gone gone, however; gradually it starts returning, but unfortunately that’s not such good news. See, Ryland Grace is not really an astronaut, but a science teacher. Earth is in BIG trouble and he’s the only one left who can help. And he’s very, VERY far away […]

Not quite The Martian, but pretty darn good

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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[Read as an ebook from the public library.] I read The Martian in one sitting — couldn’t put the thing down. It was pretty much everything I love about science fiction and being a giant NASA dork. I got a few chapters into Weir’s next book, Artemis, but it was just too much heist and too little space for my tastes. Project Hail Mary is a welcome return to a lot of what I loved about his first book. It’s a love letter to science and […]

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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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This review is brought to you in three levels, according to your tolerance for spoilers. I would like to state, for the record, I think anyone reading this review who hasn’t read the book should go in knowing as little as possible. If you think that’s just a swell idea, please remain at review level one, no spoilers: only the info you can find on the dust jacket. Level two will have some basic premise spoilers, and I’ll go into a little detail about the […]

I look forward to everything Weir writes

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Like many of you, I absolutely fell in love with The Martian when I read it a few years ago. I think I read it the year before I joined CBR, so I don’t have a review of it. I also quite enjoyed Artemis, though I feel that a lot of people were split over that one. In a sense, I think Project Hail Mary is a bit of return to form for Weir: it has more in common with The Martian, I think, than […]

This book goes to eleven

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Midway through I was very grumpy and wanted to give this a lower review, but upon finishing I’m a feeling a bit more charitable and so three star it is. To summarize this book in comparison to Weir’d well known debut (which I will spoil in general sense below): take every plot arc in The Martian and dial it waaaay up. To elaborate: The Martian was subtitled amongst some subset of audiences as “a fantasy of what we could do if NASA had a fully funded budget and […]

Amazon’s Forward Collection is half-apocalyptic, half Black Mirror

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

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Rand0m1ze by Andy Weir

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The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

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So I downloaded the 6 novellas that make up Amazon’s new Forward Collection, which appears to be a collection of sci-fi short stories by known authors (even though I have never anything by most of them). You can read them for free if you’re a Prime customer. I decided I will read them one each morning over a week and review them as I read them, but wait to post all reviews in one post. I will do it this way because these are short, and […]



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