Discussion of Hail Mary by Andrew Weir

## The Last Hope for a Dying World

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission. If he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except, 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. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very long time, and he’s awakened millions of miles from home with nothing but two corpses for company.
As his memory slowly returns, Ryland realizes he is facing an impossible task. Hurtling through space on a makeshift ship, he must use every bit of his scientific ingenuity to solve an extinction-level mystery.
But the universe is far vaster and more populated than he ever imagined. Just as the crushing weight of isolation begins to take hold, Ryland makes a discovery that changes everything. He is not alone in the void—and the key to saving his species might lie in the hands of someone, or something, he never saw coming.
In the depths of space, a new friendship will determine the fate of two worlds.