"<b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLING NOVEL</b><p><br /></p><b>A BARACK OBAMA READING PICK</b><p><br /></p><b>SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING</b><p><br /><b>A lone astronaut.</b><br /><b>An impossible mission.</b><br /><b>An ally he never imagined.</b><br /><br /> The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years <i><b>GUARDIAN</b></i><br /><br /> Weir s finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who, and know they ll love it. <b>BRANDON SANDERSON</b><br /><br /> If you like a lot of science in your science fiction, Andy Weir is the writer for you. . . This one has everything fans of old school SF (like me) love. <b>GEORGE R.R. MARTIN</b><br /><br /> Brilliantly funny and enjoyable. One of the most plausible science fiction books I ve ever read<b> TIM PEAKE, </b><b>astronaut</b><br /><b>________________________________________</b><br /><br />Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.<br /><br />Except that right now, he doesn t know that. He can t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.<br /><br />All he knows is that he s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.<br /><br />His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.<br /><br />And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he s got to do it all alone.<br /><br />Or does he?<br /><br /><b>An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, <i>Project Hail Mary</i> is a tale of discovery, spec