All life on Earth will be extinguished within a generation, unless we can figure out what makes Tau Ceti different. And so are all the nearby stars – except Tau Ceti. Gradually, but with increasing speed, the sun is getting colder. It turns out that our first encounter with extraterrestrial life is not with an alien intelligence, but with an alien microbe that has arrived in our solar system and started eating the sun. They were sent on this trip in a desperate attempt to find a solution to a problem that will end life on Earth if they fail. Slowly he remembers/discovers that he’s an astronaut named Ryland Grace, onboard the first human starship he and his now-deceased crewmates were put into medically-induced comas to conserve their life support supplies (and their sanity) on a years-long high-sublight-speed voyage to Tau Ceti. He is attended by a helpful but initially uninformative computer. His first discovery is the mummified bodies of two other people on beds in the same room.

Now, with Project Hail Mary, he skips the rest of the solar system and heads straight out for interstellar space.Ī man awakens in a small room, with no memory of where he is, or even of his own name. He followed that novel with a very different and equally good novel about the Moon, Artemis.

Retail Price: $28.99/$31.00/$14.99/$25.99įew science fiction authors have enjoyed as spectacular a debut as Andy Weir had with The Martian.

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