The main character of Project Hail Mary opens the book with serious amnesia, and Weir tells the story by interspersing flashbacks explaining the background to the problem with the lead’s present-day attempts to solve it. If you enjoy races against the clock to solve science problems, you’ll probably enjoy this. This time it’s an alien microorganism threatening to burn out the sun instead of an accident on Mars, but the structure is there. It’s a sci-fi thriller with science problems replacing the battle scenes: one scientist, alone in space, must use his brain and limited resources to avert impending doom. If you’ve read or seen The Martian, the setup to Project Hail Mary won’t be anything new. Whatever the cause, while I’ve seen the movie version of The Martian, I hadn’t picked up a Weir novel until my curiosity got the best of me with Project Hail Mary.
Maybe that’s because I’ve been primarily a fantasy reader, or maybe that’s because I prefer slower and more character-driven books to made-for-cinema thrillers.
Andy Weir is one of those authors that seems to have burst onto the scene and become a big name in sci-fi spaces but somehow rarely gets mentioned in my corners of the SFF Internet.
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