All Alone, at the Edge of the Universe... Or Not..? (Project Hail Mary sci-fi book review)
It’s hard to imagine someone who hasn’t wanted—at some point in their lives—to be an astronaut. Scratch that. Assuming more people are kinda like me— "science is neat (but I don't REALLY understand it" —and less like actual astronauts— aaaaall about the science stuff —then it's probably better to say a lot of us have dreamed of going out into space . (As a passenger. A salesperson. The ship’s cook. Whatever.) The thing is, we know it’s just a fantasy; in our lifetimes, the tiniest fraction of humanity will venture out into space (whether on a vessel created by NASA and/or its worldwide counterparts, or on something kooky that the SpaceX team is frantically working on). But what if—by the strangest sequence of events—you (science-y or not) found yourself on a mission to a distant, essentially-uncharted corner of the universe… one member of a tiny three-person team aboard a cramped little spaceship, and when you woke up, from an induced travel sleep? You discov...