Project Hail Mary: The Sci-Fi Thriller That Defies Expectations and Challenges Reality
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We meet scientist (and science teacher) Ryland Grace as he wakes up in a coma in a spaceship very far from home. Grace has no idea why he’s here or what’s going on. It takes him quite a long time to learn that he’s on a ship 11 light years from earth heading to a star that happens to be the only star in the galaxy that isn’t dying.
You see, years ago, back on earth, scientists realized that the sun was dimming. And upon some more research, they learned that, actually, *all* the stars in the galaxy were dimming. That there was this stuff called “astrophage” that was essentially eating stars. If they didn’t find out how to stop this, then in 30 years, earth would cool to a point where all the crops would die out and everyone would starve.
