Project Hail Mary: A Novel

The past was unrelenting misery for most people. And the further back in time you go, the worse it was.”

“The industrial revolution mechanized agriculture. Since then, we’ve been able to focus our energies on other things.

Planets get magnetic fields if the conditions are right. You have to have a molten-iron core, you have to be in the magnetic field of a star, and you have to be spinning. If all three of these things are true, you get a magnetic field.

“For fifty thousand years, right up to the industrial revolution, human civilization was about one thing and one thing only: food.

Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy.

No, that’s not creepy at all. Being in a spaceship twelve light-years from home and having someone knock on the door is totally normal.

bunk.

hefty

stubble