If you have read the book, you’ll know that there are aliens involved, and I don’t just mean the Astrophage. Do not click unless you’ve read all the way to the end. Warning: MAJOR spoilers for Project Hail Mary below. Neither one is completely story-breaking, but they do add complications-one of them glaringly obvious (to me as an exoplanetary scientist), the other one much subtler. ![]() However, there were two aspects of the science in the book that did include rather large mistakes. However, those things could just be there so that the book doesn’t get too far ahead of the reader. Those aren’t really wrong, but I would say they felt unrealistic. ![]() I had a few minor quibbles with the book that were mostly focused around how slow the scientists are to figure things out. Weir always does mostly pretty good science in his books, but sadly, no author is perfect, especially as Weir is a computer engineer by trade and not an astrophysicist. Andy Weir’s latest book, Project Hail Mary, is a very good hard science fiction tale about a journey to another solar system in search of a way to save Earth from disaster.
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