Great sci-fi book about the power of connection.

You. Will. Cry. ????

Fun read and I’m not even a sci fi enthusiast.

Andy Weir’s writing is entertaining and character development insightful.

I love Ryland Grace, and you will, too. He's PROJECT HAIL MARY's humble scientist, the guy who never swears, the junior high school teacher who discovers what is covering more and more of the sun. He becomes the lone astronaut who will save the world.

Grace comes out of a coma on a spaceship. He remembers nothing and has no idea why he's there. Little by little his past comes back to him. Now he realizes he is on a suicide mission to a planet that is immune to whatever the earth and its sun are suffering from. How can the earth get that immunity?

And there's Rocky, the alien who is on a similar mission to save his planet. He and Grace work together and become best friends.

I haven't been a science fiction fan since I watched "Lost in Space" back in the 60s. But I became a fan of Andy Weir when my husband bought me Weir's book THE MARTIAN because he wanted me to want to see "The Martian" movie. Now I'm ready to see the "Project Hail Mary" movie, which I'm sure won't measure up to this excellent book. This is brainy, not silly, science fiction that is easy to follow.