![]() ![]() The rest of the book is about Ryland and his new alien friend-whom he not-so-cleverly names Rocky-working together to save their home planets. He crosses paths with an alien that looks like a Labrador-sized spider made out of rock. It turns out that Ryland isn’t the only one looking for a way to stop the Astrophage. I won’t ruin the ending or anything like that, but I’m going to give away a bit more than the summary on the book jacket. ![]() So if you want to go into it blind, you should probably stop reading this now. The twist comes about a quarter of the way into the book. If Ryland doesn’t succeed, the Earth will enter a new ice age that kills billions of people. He quickly figures out that he’s been sent on a mission to save our solar system from a microorganism called the Astrophage, which is essentially eating our sun. It tells the story of Ryland Grace, a high school science teacher who wakes up alone on a spaceship in a different star system with no memory of how he got there. Here’s what I can say without ruining anything for you: Project Hail Mary is the latest novel by Andy Weir, who is best known for writing The Martian. ![]() But as soon as I started talking about it to some colleagues, I realized there was a problem: there was no way to explain why I liked the book so much without spoiling one of its big surprises. Have you ever read a book that's hard to tell people about without giving away some of the plot? I recently finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and couldn’t wait to recommend it. ![]()
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