Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
We had a pretty good turnout for our first book of the month vote. To be honest I did not anticipate the problem of there being a tie. I took the liberty of flipping a coin which came out heads for Project Hail Mary. In the future I might have to come up with a better method of tie breaking. I’m figuring this out as I go and it is all just for the fun of it anyway so please don’t take this too seriously.
I intend to read this book over the month of September and then near the end of the month I will create a discussion thread for it where people can discuss it without worrying about spoilers. Follow along if you want to.
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- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - 20 votes
- Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 20 votes
- Neuromancer - William Gibson - 17 votes
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons - 13 votes
- Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey - 13 votes
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine - 11 votes
- Wool (Silo Series Book 1) - Hugh Howey - 10 votes
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown - 4 votes
- 22/11/63 - Stephen King - 1 vote
Haven’t heard of Project Hail Mary or A Memory Called Empire, I guess I’ll have a look :)
You won’t regret Project Hail Mary. One of the most fun books I’ve ever read.
Memory Called Empire is a new favorite of mine. The sequel, A Desolation Called Peace, is also incredible.
I felt the sequel was good but not on par with the first one. A Memory Called Empire just weaves the story using so many colors!
That’s probably fair, I read them back to back so they kind of blur together for me haha.
The sequel even won the Hugo, so yea, I can’t wait to read it.
If you read/heard The Martian, it’s similarly themed and detailed. If you haven’t, then what are you doing! You need to go read the martian.
Know of it, but the description does not speak to me.
Honestly I tried both these books, the writing style is unbelievably irritating.
It reads like “Woo science is cool isn’t science cool?!?” Constantly. Yes we get it, you’re from a deeply religious country and you’re now entering the 20th century ffs