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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Project Hail Mary: A Novel" by Andy Weir
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:40:17 -0600
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On 2/14/2025 5:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Project Hail Mary: A Novel" by Andy Weir
>     https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/0593135229/
> 
> A standalone science fiction book, no prequel or sequel known.  I reread 
> (third or fourth time, not sure) the well printed and well bound trade 
> paperback published by Ballantine Books in 2022 that I bought new on 
> Amazon.  I will continue to read all books by Andy Weir, this is my 
> third book of his.
> 
> This is a story of love, desperation, betrayal, death, incredibly long 
> loneliness, and great achievement.  This is the story of Rocky and 
> Grace, two people who never should have met.  Please note that this is 
> not a religious book.
> 
> This is not a hard science story as there is an amoeba like creature 
> that can absorb light and turn it into mass and vice versa (E = mc^2).
> And there are space aliens, three wildly different variants.  Everything 
> else is definitely hard science.  Science rules !
> 
> I loved the spaceship "Hail Mary".  It just makes sense for the 
> multiyear journey to Tau Ceti.  And the spaceship is a transformer to 
> provide a centrifuge for gravity when the engines were not firing, just 
> cool.
> 
> MGM has bought the movie rights to the book for $3 million and Ryan 
> Gosling has signed on as the main character Grace.  The movie is due to 
> be released in March 2026 to an estimated billion dollar plus box office 
> like "The Martian".  I am not sure who the voice of "Rocky" will be.
> 
> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lord-millers- 
> project-hail-mary-enlisting-martian-scribe-drew-goddard-1299338/
> and
>     https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/
> 
> The author has a website at:
>     https://andyweirauthor.com/
> 
> My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
> Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (138,620 reviews)
> 
> Lynn
> 
I read it, but wasn't wild about it.  It didn't turn me off
completely, but I can't say that I got totally into it, the
way I did 'The Martian'.  I didn't finish 'Artemis'.

Bill