Andy Weir

Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat...

What happens to Alice when she comes back from Wonderland? Wendy from Neverland? Dorothy from Oz? The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing -- a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But the trio -- now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures -- aren't content to sit still in a classroom. Soon they're dashing from one universe...

Book summary and Analysis by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title Project Hail Mary is a riveting science fiction adventure that follows Ryland Grace, a high school science teacher who awakens alone on a spaceship, the Hail Mary, with no memory of how he got there. As he navigates the vastness of space, Ryland discovers he is on a critical mission to save Earth from an existential threat posed by a microorganism called Astrophage,...