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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship with two dead crewmates, a computer that will not tell him his name, and a hole where his memory should be. Piece by piece he remembers: he is a middle-school science teacher with a molecular-biology past, the Sun is being eaten by a microbe called Astrophage, and Earth has sent him on a one-way trip to Tau Ceti to find out why that star is not dying too. Then another ship appears. Funny, nerdy, and unexpectedly tender about friendship, it is a book-club novel about saving two worlds with science — and about the person on the other side of the glass.

“I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob.”

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Project Hail Mary Icebreakers

Answer in under 30 seconds. These connect to the book’s themes without spoiling the story.

  1. Personality Reveal

    1. When a problem lands on your desk, do you talk it through out loud until it makes sense, or go quiet until you have an answer?

  2. Personality Reveal

    2. Are you the friend who will stay up to finish the experiment, or the friend who makes everyone sleep before they get stupid?

  3. Personality Reveal

    3. In a crisis, are you more likely to take charge without asking, or to refuse until someone explains why it has to be you?

  4. Funny & Light

    4. What is the most scientific-sounding excuse you have used for something that was definitely not science?

  5. Funny & Light

    5. What food would you pack for a years-long trip if you knew you could not complain to anyone about it?

  6. Funny & Light

    6. What nickname would your coworkers give an alien after ten minutes, and would the alien deserve it?

  7. Would You Rather

    7. Would you rather be brilliant at explaining things and mediocre at building them, or brilliant at building and terrible at explaining?

  8. Would You Rather

    8. Would you rather remember every awkward thing you have ever done, or wake up and have to reconstruct yourself from clues?

  9. Would You Rather

    9. Would you rather save a stranger's entire hometown, or save one friend who would do the same for you?

  10. Hot Take

    10. Hot take: the person who asks "why" in every meeting is more useful than the person who already has a plan. Agree or disagree?

  11. Hot Take

    11. Hot take: teachers are better in a crisis than experts, because they already know how to start from zero. Agree or disagree?

  12. Hot Take

    12. Hot take: if a solution requires you to skip consent, it is not a solution. Agree or disagree?

  13. Personal Connection

    13. Who in your life became essential even though you had almost no language in common at the start?

  14. Personal Connection

    14. When did you last change a plan because a person mattered more than the original goal?

  15. Personal Connection

    15. What is one skill from a "smaller" job you have had that later turned out to be the useful one?