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Project Hail Mary - Blog Posts
I’ve seen some more idiotic readers go “Mark and Grace are just the same people.”
if they’re the same people, explain this:
Mark Watney: *at any minor inconvenience * FUCKING FU— Ryland Grace: *world-ending, life-threatening news* holy moly
Michael Crichton’s idea that humans are inherently selfish and will look out for their own survival vs. Andy Weir’s idea that as social creatures humans will connect with and help others, fight.
Been thinking a lot about this book as of late and wanted to do a fun cover art mockup for it
(Who else is very excited for the film)
Finished it. This was a wonderful book.
Why did I wait so long to read this?
i'd love to have Rocky from PHM as my roommate but i feel like there would be some logistical issues
Consider the last post you made about an individual character from any fandom.
That character is now your roommate.
Redesign of Eridians for the PHM Fantasy AU!
was too lazy to draw the front/back/side profiles haha. worldbuilding questions are always welcome!
I just finished the first chapter of my Project Hail Mary fairytale AU! It's only about 700-800 words rn but this is something I've been working really hard on and I'm really proud of it :)
:3
Hi I've been stranded on Mars for about the equivalent of 1 Earth week and my crew probably thinks I'm dead by now. It's really boring up here. Is Poob available in space? I have access to a computer but if that doesn't work I plan to dig up and refurbish a rover.
Poob is available in all planets, moons, and dimensions!
8 hours of sleep? 2-day weekends?? Not. Enough. I need to be put in a medically-induced coma for roughly 4 years and wake up alone in space with no memories
Grace is actually so yellow-coded. I mean it makes sense if you think about it; yellow can represent:
cowardice, one of Grace's main character flaws
stars and the sun
joy, curiosity and happiness, which fits his personality
hope (a key theme in the book)
and it is on the book cover! oughh colour symbolism my beloved <33
Grace: *exists*
The costumers, apparently: we are going to create a character that is so yellow-coded
I had to do it.
AOUGHOUHEBEUAOUGHAGAGAHA
Context: I'm working on a fantasy/fairytale AU for PHM in which the Hail Mary is a giant ship (the Lightark) and the sky is the ocean but funky. I make these choices because I want to feel.
I don't want Rocky to be anything too humanoid because (IMO) his dynamic with Grace works best as two individuals who have completely different bodies but are otherwise kin.
oh i'm sorry, you want me to SLEEP? as in, the thing that killed yao and ilyukhina?
i designed a PHM cover in Keynote because graphic design is my passion
the PHM brainrot has consumed me.
every time i see a large collection of books i will examine it to see if Project Hail Mary is there. when an article or something mentions Ryan Gosling i immediately check if the upcoming PHM movie adaptation is mentioned. i have recommended this book to anyone who will listen. rocky literally lives in my head rent free. he hates soda water because apparently it's just regular water but with bonus Pain
*snorts the Petrova line*
the urge to design a logo for a Vietnamese space agency that only exists within the bounds of the PHM fanfic you're ""writing"" (read: Vaguely Thinking About) and will likely never show up on the fic itself
Been thinking a lot about this book as of late and wanted to do a fun cover art mockup for it
(Who else is very excited for the film)
kudos to Ryland Grace for finally being the true “I am alone in space” representation we deserve by sobbing his eyes out every chapter. Relatable. I do that and I’m not even light years away from my bed
as someone who jumped from the Martian straight into project Hail Mary I was really not expecting how much more absurd project hail mary is.
like. The Martian is fairly grounded? Its sci fi and had some elements that couldn’t really happen but ultimately it was a survival story. And since the two are so closely associated ig I expected something similar?
But every chapter of project Hail Mary is like ‘algae are eating the sun’ ‘they nuked antarctica’ ‘aliens and humans have a common ancester’ etc. It’s amazing.
project hail mary is so good wtf.
ahem. this is a book review, aka me rambling about a book i consumed at light speed because i loved it so much.
Official Title: "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir Just Made Me Cry On My Couch So Now I Must Speak About It
not spoiler free
first off the plot is insane. like, kudos to andy weir for thinking that. ALL THAT. holy SHIT.
second of all, let me talk about ryland grace as a character. he is SUCH a likeable main character it's insane. smart in unique ways, funny, Just Some Dude, a middle school teacher, an astrobiologist. a man who's not afraid to cry or show emotion. a man who is a cinnamon roll of an astronaut. He Is So Amazing And I Love Him
and how could i talk about grace without talking about rocky?? rocky... not going to lie i was very caught off guard when a sentient alien showed up, but he turned out to be so smart and adorable it killed me. also ERIDIANS SPEAK IN MUSICAL CHORDS. THATS SO COOL
(side not: eventually grace was able to tell what chords rocky was speaking without looking at his computer. what i'm saying is that grace basically developed perfect pitch to talk to aliens and i think that's cool of him. my musician heart approves.)
the sheer strength of the friendship between grace and rocky... like, the initial trust that neither will destroy each other, which moves to them working together as scientific partners and friends - best friends because grace has no one else.:. the instinct to protect each other... *screams because hope is real*
ASTROPHAGE. WHAT THE HELL. THEYRE SO COOL. i mean besides the fact that they were actively causing at least two apocalypses - as a concept, a microscopic object (even if it weren't a living thing) that absorbs THAT much energy is just an INSANE concept. and they make neutrinos. like the fucking sun. and they eat star radiation. what the fuck. thank you for the brain food, andy weir
screw stratt for literally jailing grace and sending him to space, however that does not disqualify her from badassery.
DMITRI IS AMAZING also briefly i thought him and grace had a thing. yeah i can't go five fucking minutes without seeing gay people but i don't care. i don't care. ryland grace is mildly bisexual. you hear me?
the hilarious russian people in this book sustained me
a s t ro p h a g e E A T S T A R S
grace's crewmates died but in that time he was alone he never lost hope. humans, huh? (i mean that's probably because he literally lost his entire memory and only recovered it in pieces, but still)
if this were a movie... i have no idea how they would pull that off
somehow this book was very high-stakes while being comforting at the same time?? like yes the ship failing and the taumeba and everything stressed me out, but also alien friends and earth friends. grace had friends in memory and a friend in real time
(his realization that eridians don't know about radiation or relativity... damn. they were living in the dark. but they were doing so quite literally, because they had no way of knowing what was out there. how did they make star maps????)
this book made me like humans a little more
anyway that's all i have to say, for now at least. PLEASE read this book if you like science fiction and little alien guys. (i mean if you read that sentence you've probably read the book, but. k i will stop typing now)
I really like the analogy comparing making a discord server to discuss a creator's works without also posting publicly where they can see it and know they're appreciated to locking yourselves in a room to talk about how much you love a baker's cakes and excluding them, but.
Ok. Imagine you spent your early culinary career making that horrible 50s jello food. It's bad. Like really bad. Somehow, though, you debut your first cake recipe and it's fucking incredible. Not too sweet, not too tart or bitter, not too airy, not too dense--it's just fantastic. The world loves it and they make sure you know that. Riding that high you get back in your kitchen and make another cake. Except surprise! Under the frosting, it's all mayonnaise jello and everyone who tries it gets a nasty shock. Your first cake was so good that nobody really talks about the second one aside from furtive whispers in dark alleyways. But never one to be daunted, you get to work on a third cake and spend years on it--you scrap parts of the recipe a few times, but it's finally ready and you show it to the world. People who only tried your first cake come in with high hopes and are not disappointed; people who tried your jello cake are pretty leery at first but you blow their expectations out of the water. This is your best cake yet, as close to perfect as it can be. It's so good, in fact, that one day you get an invitation to hang out in a room where a bunch of people who liked it (and your first cake) have been talking about your cakes and sharing their own recipes inspired by you. They give you a nice comfy arm chair in a cozy but prestigious corner where people can come ask you questions about the baking process or what particular flavors you used or anything that strikes your fancy. Little do you know, though, in the room next door, a bunch of people who liked your cakes also discovered your jello food (which is still on display in your bakery) and are passing it around, trying it, and just marveling at how spectacularly bad it is. You just go between the bakery and your little armchair, working on cakes and talking to your fans about them, blissfully unaware.
You are Andrew Taylor Weir, critically acclaimed author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary.
I have finished reading this book so fast and now I can't wait for the movie. In the meantime, here's a fanart!
they cant hug i need them hugging you know the drill