Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of the most important books of the moment, As of March 28, 2026, the book has been featured on the New York Times' best-seller list for 41 weeks in total…furthermore, the adaptation for the big screen is celebrated as the biggest success of the year, it has made about (or more than) 150 million at the box office in the US, and another few hundreds of million in the world, though the least is more of a guess, I forgot the figures for outside America, it has also entered the Greatest Books of All Time list, at 6915th for now – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my macaws

 

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of the most important books of the moment, As of March 28, 2026, the book has been featured on the New York Times' best-seller list for 41 weeks in total…furthermore, the adaptation for the big screen is celebrated as the biggest success of the year, it has made about (or more than) 150 million at the box office in the US, and another few hundreds of million in the world, though the least is more of a guess, I forgot the figures for outside America, it has also entered the Greatest Books of All Time list, at 6915th for now – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my macaws

 

8 out of 10

 

Project Hail Mary has reminded me of 2001 – A Space Odyssey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/2001-space-odyssey-by-arthur-c-clarke.html a classic of Science Fiction – by the way, let me attack the novel and say it has too much…Science, which is so silly and a spoiler alert

 

Not the usual spoiler alert – though I will tell you what happens, no, I am just playing around, I write this on April 1, Fool’s Day – an alert in the sense that I am ‘totally’ – some nonsense I keep hearing, a common word these days – the wrong person to write about this: what does it mean ‘too much Science’, when we are talking Science Fiction

It was difficult for me to follow, that is the main thing, and then what was ‘clear’ did not seem scientific, such as the basis of the plot, the ‘Astrophage’ that are bringing an ice age on earth, and ultimately will kill half the population or more, as in there will be famine, with the sun dying, and then wars will bring Armageddon

 

According to Mark https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/according-to-mark-by-penelope-lively.html is a fabulous novel by Penelope Lively, and you find there this argument ‘the novelist has an infinity of choices, He chooses what is to happen, to whom it happens, and in what way he will relate what happens, the picture he constructs is complete on its own terms…when he says this is the story and the whole story we must accept it…perhaps novelists are the only people telling the truth’ and what a story this is

Having ‘attacked’ Andy Weir, I must say ‘chapeau’, and anyway, it was really an admission of limitation, The Project has more science than I can take, but what an imagination, and humor- let me mention the start, which was marvelous and made me stay to the end, with the caveat that a lot has passed by me, without comprehension:

 

Here is the ‘resemblance with 2001’ – we have a computer on board the Hail Mary, just like in the Arthur Clarke novel, and the AI is asking Ryland Grace, the hero, what is two plus two, and the man does not it, he just woke up from a comma, they had to be in that state for their interstellar journey to avoid fights on board the ship

The other two humans have died because of this comma, and then we get flashbacks, what happened, how humanity tried to envisage a way out of Apocalypse  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/apocalypse-now-francis-ford-coppola.html and the way Ryland Grace became part of the Project

One major achievement is the alien, Rocky, and the description, what happens give credibility to the narrative, it is not for nothing that it is so popular: I was talking to this young woman at the gym, and boasted that I am listening to this, and somehow offered to give her the material, except she already read, if only to the point where it became to dark and she stopped, because she did not want to go to the tragic stages…

 

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