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Project Hail Mary
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
Winner of the 2022 Audie Awards' Audiobook of the Year
Number-One Audible and New York Times Audio Best Seller
More than one million audiobooks sold
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.
Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian - while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
PLEASE NOTE: To accommodate this audio edition, some changes to the original text have been made with the approval of author Andy Weir.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-05-21
A return to form
Every review of this book will have a mention of The Martian in it so let’s get the name out of the way now! The Martian was my first audio book and it was incredibly performed with an amazing, involving story. You couldn’t help but be swept away and engaged with it. The story was science faction at its best with twists and turns to keep you on your toes.
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It’s not a copy but it does follow a similar path. A huge problem needs to be solved. You solve one problem and move to the next, if you solve enough problems you get to go home. The Martian interspaced this with what was going on in the Hermes and Earth, this time it’s Graces memory returning. Whilst it can be a little convenient with his memory returning in chronological order there is an explanation for this and I was willing to accept it.
The reader, Ray Porter, read another series of books called the Bobiverse series and I have to admit this was very similar but in a good way. Dennis E Taylor’s writing style is very similar to Andy’s with hard science interspersed with humour and an engaging story. I can recommend both.
In conclusion this was an excellent story, well researched with good character development. The special audio effects (no spoilers) add a depth that I have not heard before and do nothing but enhance the experience, once you get used to them. This will be going in my top ten favourites and I cannot recommend it highly enough, well done Andy!
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- Rafael Pimpao
- 05-05-21
Definitely not what I was expecting, in a good way
I must admit it felt a bit dull at the beginning, or maybe I wasn't ready for it. We can see a definite evolution in Andy's story telling, in a good way. I was expecting another Martian and got something more along the lines of what we would expect from Heinlein, but with the usual great science description we learn to love. Great story twists. Ray Porter was also the perfect voice (same voice in The Bobverse) for this book. I'm sure I will listen to this book several more times.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-05-21
Very good narration. Poor prose and storyline.
The narrator is good good good and the story is bad bad bad.
The story starts fairly interesting and then descends into something boring at best and annoying at worst. The books reads like it's written by someone with a lot of hobbies who enjoys his hobbies intensely and spends his time imaging how these hobbies would come in handy in space survival adventures. I cannot comment on the physics side of this attemp at hard science sci-fi as I'm not a physicist, but I am a bioinformatician, and the lack of realism and knowledge regarding biology really would have taken me out of the story if I wasn't already utterly bored by the narrator's voice. The prose is shockingly poor. If you want to spend 17h listening to someone who sounds like their every sentence ends with an exclamation mark and who says things like 'yeah, relativity physics is super weird' and 'science is awesome' then this is a book for you. There will be no character development and no reason to feel invested in the character. You don't care if he dies a horrible death or not and you don't even care if the whole of Earth will perish.
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- Josh
- 05-05-21
Amazing
Absolutely brilliant. I’m very impressed all round. Just couldn’t stop listening, and also couldn’t wipe the smile off my face:)
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- James Walker
- 06-05-21
Such a good book
I love all Andy weir books and I especially love ray porters performances ! This was an incredible experience to listen to I can’t recommend it enough
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- Adam
- 09-05-21
Entertaining, but not quite as good
I was glad to pick up another Andy Weir offering, and a lot of what made The Martian so much fun is here again.
That said, I felt that a lot of the humour felt very formulaic and forced. That is not to say that you should give it a miss. If you enjoyed The Martian, you will liklely enjoy this as well.
Narration is good, story is OK (if a little less believable than The Martian) but doesnt quite have that special something that made The Martian a book that I return to again and again.
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- Chris Williams
- 06-05-21
Fantastic book
One of the previous reviews said it was not what was expected in a good way- couldnt agree more
This is one of my new favourite books especially with Ray Porter as lucky one reading it out.
If you like Dennis E Taylors BOBIVERSE you will love this
the writing is amusing and self critical. The main character is an everyman who ends up trying to save the world
Cant praise the book enough. I enjoyed this one more than The Martian
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- Matthew K.
- 05-05-21
Another weir great
Fan of weir,
Fan of Porter...
Another great novel from Andy Weir... the narration from Ray Porter will help you to suspend your belief to far flung solar systems... I had to check a couple of times to make sure I wasn’t listening to other books with similar themes also narrated by Porter, though this is great and in the same vein!
Enjoy!
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- Jonathan Griffin
- 05-05-21
better than the Martian
excellent. finished in 2 days. very technical, good pacing, and can't wait for more like this. great narrator.
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- Steve Bennett
- 06-05-21
A triumph of an audiobook
I wasn't sure what to expect and that's not always a bad thing, and as such I'm not even going to mention the story here other than to say it is a return to story style of The Martian. It's clear it took more production to make this audiobook than normal and Ray Porter is very safe hands, in fact, as good as he usually is anyway, he is phenomenal here.
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