Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, 2021
A science teacher wakes on a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there and a solar system to save.
Andy Weir
Andy Weir writes problem-solvers at work: people with limited supplies and a lot of know-how, thinking their way out loud. The tone stays light even when the stakes are high, and the puzzles are the point. Start with «The Martian», a stranded astronaut's log of improvised fixes and dry jokes, or «Project Hail Mary», where a science teacher wakes on a ship with no memory and has to work out the situation one calculation at a time.
Feels like wonder, memory and nature.
Start with Project Hail Mary.
Andy Weir serialised The Martian free on his website, where readers caught math errors, before it became a bestseller; he was a software engineer.
A knock at the door, twelve light-years from home.
Knock-knock-knockNo, that’s not creepy at all. Being in a spaceship twelve light-years from home and having someone knock on the door is totally normal. Books by Andy Weir
The Martian
Andy Weir, 2011
An astronaut stranded on Mars must science his way out, one log entry and improvised fix at a time; a survival thriller with gallows humor.
Artemis
Andy Weir, 2017
A broke porter in the moon’s only city takes a criminal job that might buy her a future—if the vacuum doesn’t collect first.
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