Project Hail Mary: A Novel

Now we have that under control and I can do EVAs in zero g like God intended.

Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.

“Humans are amaze. You leave ship.”

“Has to be, or you and I would not meet,” Rocky says. “If planet has less science, it no can make spaceship. If planet has more science it can understand and destroy Astrophage without leaving their system. Eridian and human science both in special range: Can make ship, but can’t solve Astrophage problem.”

Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.

Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.

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.