As the story unfolds in a wry, first-person present tense and alternates scenes from the past and present, Grace recalls discovering Astrophage and preparing for Project Hail Mary as the mission’s lead scientist, and he tries to discover why Astrophage have not destroyed Tau Ceti but seem to be affecting every other star in the local galaxy.Īt Tau Ceti, Grace encounters an alien spaceship, the Blip-A, from the 40 Eridani solar system and meets an Eridian, a dog-sized spider-like extraterrestrial with hard mineral skin whom he names Rocky and who is also the only surviving member of his respective crew. However, the Hail Mary is on a sacrifice mission, as the ship can’t carry enough fuel for a return trip. To save all of civilization, Grace must learn why Tau Ceti is unaffected by Astrophage and send data probes back to Earth. As the Astrophage cause solar dimming, humanity has only 26 years before crop failure, famine, and climate change will reduce the world population by half, and they will ultimately cause total extinction. Earth’s sun is infected with Astrophage, an alien life form that navigates a migration pattern between the sun and Venus via infrared light emission called the Petrova Line. Gradually, Grace recalls that his controversial academic work on extraterrestrials caused him to be drafted into Project Hail Mary, a mission 12 light-years from Earth to the Tau Ceti solar system to save all of humanity. Ryland Grace wakes up on the Hail Mary interstellar spaceship with total amnesia, the only surviving member of a three-person crew. Though this book is fictional, the author made saving the Earth feel real and dire, and I was immediately so interested in the processes of finding a solution and preparing the team for Project Hail Mary.In the near future, junior high school science teacher Dr. His mission - Project Hail Mary - is to find out how to kill the organism and send the information back to Earth in the desperate hope to save humanity. As his memory and function slowly return, Ryland discovers that he's the sole survivor of a suicide mission to reach the nearest star that seems to be unaffected by Astrophage. When Ryland Grace wakes up from an induced coma in a solar system 12 light-years from Earth, he has little memory of where he is or why he's there. The main problem introduced in "Project Hail Mary" surrounds a strange, single-celled organism dubbed "Astrophage," which is rapidly producing near our Sun and absorbing its energy at an alarming rate, causing the Sun (and subsequently, the Earth) to cool at a rate that will result in 50% of humanity's extinction within 19 years. As a result, I was unable to tear myself away from this book on multiple occasions. Similar to Andy Weir's other hit book, " The Martian," "Project Hail Mary" is part-scientific mystery, part-thriller, and part-space adventure. The book's central mystery is compelling and truly unique.
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