Recommended by
- Bill Gates: "Even if you aren’t a big science fiction fan, Project Hail Mary is a terrific story about two friends using science and engineering to save the day." source ↗
- Brian Armstrong: "Best sci fi book i've read in a long long time. Has lots of real science/engineering in it. Incredible read." source ↗
Summary
Andy Weir's novel of a lone astronaut waking on a spaceship whose mission memory is gone, forced to solve one impossible engineering problem after another with an alien companion's help — a love letter to applied science.
For founders
Armstrong's verdict — 'best sci-fi I've read in a long time, lots of real science and engineering in it' — is the founder's version of the book: an ode to first-principles problem solving under impossible constraints.