Andy Weir’s “The Martian” was the first book I ever read twice in a row. Andy Ihnatko recommended it on Twitter (remember when Twitter was good?) and so I checked it out from the library. I could not put it down. And I reread it immediately after finishing it.
“Artemis”, his second book, is good, but it suffers from having to follow “The Martian”.
“Project Hail Mary” is superb. I don’t think it is better or worse than “The Martian”, it is as good in different ways.
The movie version of “The Martian” is one of the better book-to-movie efforts. Like all movies, a certain amount of compression has to happen to fit the book into roughly two hours of movie. It is one of my favorite movies.
I saw “Project Hail Mary” a couple days ago in the theater. It is as good as everyone says. I think the movie is as good a representation of this book as “The Martian” movie was to its book.
In the words of Rocky, amaze amaze amaze.
Tonight while we were having dinner Sibylle showed me on her phone that you can now buy or rent “Project Hail Mary”. Guess what we watched this evening?
For all the space and technology and science in Andy Weir’s books, the humanness of the stories are the real draw. Go see “Project Hail Mary”, or rent it, or buy it, and you too will say amaze, amaze, amaze.