Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir's hard science fiction novel and a #1 New York Times bestseller that follows Ryland Grace — a junior high school science teacher with a PhD in molecular biology — who wakes aboard a spacecraft with no memory, two dead crewmates, and sole responsibility for saving humanity from extinction. The novel earned a Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist nod, won the 2022 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year (read by Ray Porter), and has spent 47 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list as of May 2026. Kirkus Reviews awarded it a starred review, calling it "nothing short of a science fiction masterwork," and the novel has since been adapted into a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.

Reviewed Mar 30, 2026