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| Andy Weir |
Andy Weir became famous with his 2011 sci-fi novel The Martian, in which an astronaut is mistakenly abandoned on Mars when the third expedition must be hastily canceled because of a violent dust storm. The novel was the basis for a film, which bears the same title, and which made its author famous.
Weir is not a prolific writer. In 2021,
his third novel, Project Hail Mary,
was published. In my opinion, this is one of the seven best science fiction
novels of all time. My other six favorite works in this genre can be seen here.
Project Hail Mary is a hard science fiction novel about space adventures typical of the genre. It deals with interstellar travel at relativistic speeds, encounter with extraterrestrial intelligences, or the invasion of the solar system by extraterrestrial life forms that threaten our survival. All this is integrated in a coherent way.
