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Project Hail Mary
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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Plan your meeting
Project Hail Mary This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
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Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Fist bump or Wave through glass?
- 2. Teacher voice or Engineer silence?
- 3. Coffee in a lab mug or Tea in the teacher's lounge?
- 4. Star chart on the wall or Glow-stick "xenonite" jar?
- 5. Beatles on the speakers or No music, just the centrifuge?
- 6. Shortbread stars or Granola-bar "rations"?
- 7. "What's two plus two?" or "Fist my bump."?
- 8. Sarcasm or Amaze?
- 9. Sleep when Rocky says or One more experiment?
- 10. Toga from a bedsheet or Proper mission coveralls?