Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán.
Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo.
Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su hogar, sin más compañía que la de dos cadáveres.
Muertos sus compañeros de tripulación, y a medida que va recuperando confusamente los recuerdos, Grace se da cuenta de que se enfrenta a una misión imposible. Recorriendo el espacio en una pequeña nave, depende de él acabar con una amenaza de extinción para nuestra especie.
Sin apenas tiempo y con …
Un único astronauta.
Una misión imposible.
Un aliado que jamas habrás imaginado.
Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán.
Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo.
Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su hogar, sin más compañía que la de dos cadáveres.
Muertos sus compañeros de tripulación, y a medida que va recuperando confusamente los recuerdos, Grace se da cuenta de que se enfrenta a una misión imposible. Recorriendo el espacio en una pequeña nave, depende de él acabar con una amenaza de extinción para nuestra especie.
Sin apenas tiempo y con el ser humano más cercano a años luz de distancia, habrá de conseguirlo estando completamente solo.
¿O no?
Proyecto Hail Mary, una aventura interestelar irresistible como solo Andy Weir podía imaginar, es una historia de descubrimiento, especulación y supervivencia a la altura de El marciano, que nos lleva a lugares que nunca soñamos alcanzar.
Audiobook? Utterly amazing. At first, I was very annoyed about the narration!!! However, I absolutely loved the book!! Ryland Grace was an amazingly developed character and the world building within this sci fi novel was amazing. I did not expect to find so much love for science in a book and expect to feel like I know about highly scientific knowledge along with the main character. I was hooked to the story. Absolutely amazing. Also, the world needs Strat. Fictional and Non Fictional world!!
Exciting sci-fi book with lovable characters. The story is full of tension and interesting technological or scientifical details. Weir's mix of humour and wholesomeness makes it a fun and engaging read. Highly recommended!
Project Hail Mary was a really fun read. This book is a lot more ambitious than The Martian, but mostly well executed and I didn't trip over any questionable science. I didn't like how the main character ended up on the mission, but that can be forgiven.
I'm a little disappointed in the politics. The world is ending, Grace is imagining people he loves dying, and we don't get their perspective at all. I get that that's completely beside the main story line but it feels like the story takes place in an uncomfortable social vacuum.
And yeah, I have to mention Rocky's gender. Of course the scientist is excited about communicating about atoms and number systems more than social science. But defaulting to he/him for the little creature and never circling back is wrong. It would work as commentary about cishet guy scientists, but instead it only tells us …
Project Hail Mary was a really fun read. This book is a lot more ambitious than The Martian, but mostly well executed and I didn't trip over any questionable science. I didn't like how the main character ended up on the mission, but that can be forgiven.
I'm a little disappointed in the politics. The world is ending, Grace is imagining people he loves dying, and we don't get their perspective at all. I get that that's completely beside the main story line but it feels like the story takes place in an uncomfortable social vacuum.
And yeah, I have to mention Rocky's gender. Of course the scientist is excited about communicating about atoms and number systems more than social science. But defaulting to he/him for the little creature and never circling back is wrong. It would work as commentary about cishet guy scientists, but instead it only tells us something about the writer.
La he disfrutado a lo grande. Es pura épica -un héroe solitario embarcado en una misión imposible, un personaje plano y sin matices porque lo que importa es el viaje, el objetivo final.
Las dos tramas que se superponen y complementan logran mantener el interés hasta el final y el ritmo es perfecto para enganchar al lector.
Sí: no hay alardes de estilo, personajes elaborados ni estructura literariamente grandiosa. Ni falta que hace. Es pura scifi bien disfrutona y adictiva, plagadita de detalles científicos y absolutamente coherente generando su propio espacio ficticio.
Si te gusta la scifi, hay que leerla.
I enjoyed “The Martian” and this is more of the same, which is a good thing. Ryland, the protagonist, is a golden retriever of a narrator: super ENTHUSIASTIC! which surprisingly, didn’t grate (too much). Because it’s science and problem-solving, and Weir does a good job of keeping it interesting without dumbing things down. Really fascinating stuff. The stakes are much higher this time too. Very enjoyable.
This is going up there as one of my favorite books of all time. I have a terrible fear of spiders and I want to be best friends with Rocky. The character development, storytelling, humor, and plot - my jaw is still on the floor. This author is so incredibly talented.
The author is also qualified to nerd out properly, as they are a nerd themselves, and did thorough research to get the book to be as scientifically accurate at possible.
This book makes me want to buy more science books and learn more about Quantum Physics and how light works and makes me question the universe as a whole.
Probably won't be able to stop thinking about this book or talking about it until I have finished his other two books I have lined up on my e-reader.
I started reading Project Hail Mary buying into its hype. I am happy to report that, unlike most hyped things, it did not fail to deliver. It gripped my attention to the very end, finishing on a satisfying note. So, yes, it's a "go read please" from my side if anyone is asking.
Character-wise, PHM (I am not writing Project Hail Mary repeatedly!) is a story revolving mainly around two characters: Dr. Ryland Grace, a researcher turned high school teacher, and Rocky—yes, you read it right, it's just "Rocky"! There are some minor characters here and there, but mostly it's a two-character story. But don't let that fool you, it's not boring in any sense.
The plot follows Dr. Grace at two points in his life in parallel. He wakes up inside PHM (a spaceship in deep space) without any memory of how he got there. As …
I started reading Project Hail Mary buying into its hype. I am happy to report that, unlike most hyped things, it did not fail to deliver. It gripped my attention to the very end, finishing on a satisfying note. So, yes, it's a "go read please" from my side if anyone is asking.
Character-wise, PHM (I am not writing Project Hail Mary repeatedly!) is a story revolving mainly around two characters: Dr. Ryland Grace, a researcher turned high school teacher, and Rocky—yes, you read it right, it's just "Rocky"! There are some minor characters here and there, but mostly it's a two-character story. But don't let that fool you, it's not boring in any sense.
The plot follows Dr. Grace at two points in his life in parallel. He wakes up inside PHM (a spaceship in deep space) without any memory of how he got there. As if that wasn't enough, he finds two dead people beside him, whom he senses he knew at one point in life but can't remember how! From there on, the story picks up, illustrating how he tries to work around this situation and remembers how he got there in the first place. As readers, we get to know important pieces of information at the same time Grace himself remembers them. Although not new, I think this style of unfolding the story worked very well here. Since the protagonist and we are exposed to important plot points at the same time, it makes a big splash and we can empathize with him easily.
The presentation is so very realistic. All the scientific stuff is explained and portrayed believably. Not even once did I feel that I was reading some made-up mumbo jumbo even though the plot is so outlandish!
I loved [a:Andy Weir|6540057|Andy Weir|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1382592903p2/6540057.jpg]'s first book, [b:The Martian|18007564|The Martian|Andy Weir|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413706054l/18007564.SY75.jpg|21825181], very much, so I had some expectations for this one. And I think you can guess by now that I was not disappointed in any way!
This book has an engaging plot that kept me hooked. It was fun watching the main character solve problems. It's always great to see some sci-fi that takes astronautics and space seriously rather than hand-waving it away with artificial gravity and FTL. Even if it is curiously done: there are no checklists in the spaceship, no packet of information on the crew in case of amnesia despite otherwise meticulous preparation.
It's a pity the author didn't put anywhere as much effort in the biology in the book as he did into the astronomy and physics. Rocky was fun but the astrobiology was kind of paper-thin. The panspermia implied doesn't line up with what we know about the development of life on Earth. Also: (view spoiler)
Also frustrating were the reactionary gender politics. Stratt, the leader of the project, will only accept heterosexual men as astronauts on the basis of reactionist …
This book has an engaging plot that kept me hooked. It was fun watching the main character solve problems. It's always great to see some sci-fi that takes astronautics and space seriously rather than hand-waving it away with artificial gravity and FTL. Even if it is curiously done: there are no checklists in the spaceship, no packet of information on the crew in case of amnesia despite otherwise meticulous preparation.
It's a pity the author didn't put anywhere as much effort in the biology in the book as he did into the astronomy and physics. Rocky was fun but the astrobiology was kind of paper-thin. The panspermia implied doesn't line up with what we know about the development of life on Earth. Also: (view spoiler)
Also frustrating were the reactionary gender politics. Stratt, the leader of the project, will only accept heterosexual men as astronauts on the basis of reactionist drivel that is not really challenged (e.g. plenty of evidence that gender-balanced teams are more effective) and then the narrative validates Stratt by (view spoiler)
The main character, Ryland Grace, meets an alien, and decides to use he/him pronouns: "I'm going to go with ‘he’ for now, because it just seems rude to call a thinking being ‘it.’ ”"
Seriously dude? The only pronouns you can think of are he/him and it/its? She/her is beyond your comprehension, let alone the obvious they/them pronouns? You expect me to believe that the main character is a schoolteacher in the 2020s and has never learnt any other pronouns? What rock is Grace living under?
The alien, Rocky, is described as biologically hermaphroditic. Yet Grace doesn't reconsider pronouns when he finds this out.
I'm also not convinced that Rocky is actually hermaphroditic. Rocky's species is described vaguely as mating by having each would-be partner lay an egg, and the eggs fuse to produce one offspring. That sounds a lot more like isogamy to me than cosexuality. (If each parent laid and egg and fertilized the other's egg that would be cosexuality, a type of hermaphroditism. Isogamy is when there is no difference between egg and sperm; each parent provides an identically sized gamete which together become the child.)
The acknowledgements at the end of the book make clear the author talked to physics and astronomy people to inform the book. But not a single biologist nor science teacher are listed and it shows. Fun read but the more I stop and think about it the more holes occur to me. Hopefully they'll at least fix the pronoun problem in the movie
Ein Mann alleine Im All auf einer verzweifelten Mission
4 stars
Ich war anfangs etwas überrascht. Stilistisch hatte ich den Eindruck ungeschliffene Fanfiction vor mir zu haben. Es wirkte alles etwas sprachlich einfach. Ich weiß nicht wie ich es besser beschreiben soll, ich hoffe ihr versteht was ich meine. Im hinteren Teil des Buches wurde dieser Eindruck dann aber weniger.
Inhaltlich ist es eine recht lineare Geschichte die in zwei Zeitebenen erzählt wird. Die aktuellen Geschehnisse und Erinnerungen wie es dazu gekommen war. Zusammengefasst, ohne viel zu verraten: Ein Mann, ein Schiff, eine Mission und ganz viel Wissenschaft.
Irgendwie wächst einem der Protagonist ans Herz. Er schwankt zwar ständig zwischen Wissenschaft und impulsiven Handeln aber das ist ja nur menschlich. Und so fieberte ich am Ende richtig mit. Insbesondere bei der Wendung als ich schon das Gefühl hatte das Buch wäre gleich zum Schluss gekommen.
Ich weiß echt nicht was sich deutsche Verlage denken wenn sie die Titel festlegen. "Der Astronaut"? …
Ich war anfangs etwas überrascht. Stilistisch hatte ich den Eindruck ungeschliffene Fanfiction vor mir zu haben. Es wirkte alles etwas sprachlich einfach. Ich weiß nicht wie ich es besser beschreiben soll, ich hoffe ihr versteht was ich meine. Im hinteren Teil des Buches wurde dieser Eindruck dann aber weniger.
Inhaltlich ist es eine recht lineare Geschichte die in zwei Zeitebenen erzählt wird. Die aktuellen Geschehnisse und Erinnerungen wie es dazu gekommen war. Zusammengefasst, ohne viel zu verraten: Ein Mann, ein Schiff, eine Mission und ganz viel Wissenschaft.
Irgendwie wächst einem der Protagonist ans Herz. Er schwankt zwar ständig zwischen Wissenschaft und impulsiven Handeln aber das ist ja nur menschlich. Und so fieberte ich am Ende richtig mit. Insbesondere bei der Wendung als ich schon das Gefühl hatte das Buch wäre gleich zum Schluss gekommen.
Ich weiß echt nicht was sich deutsche Verlage denken wenn sie die Titel festlegen. "Der Astronaut"? Warum nicht den originalen Titel beibehalten? Insbesondere da das namens gebende Raumschiff im Buch auch nicht umbenannt wurde.
