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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  1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - 20 votes
  2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 20 votes
  3. Neuromancer - William Gibson - 17 votes
  4. Hyperion - Dan Simmons - 13 votes
  5. Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey - 13 votes
  6. A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine - 11 votes
  7. Wool (Silo Series Book 1) - Hugh Howey - 10 votes
  8. Red Rising - Pierce Brown - 4 votes
  9. 22/11/63 - Stephen King - 1 vote

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You won’t regret Project Hail Mary. One of the most fun books I’ve ever read.

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Memory Called Empire is a new favorite of mine. The sequel, A Desolation Called Peace, is also incredible.

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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!

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That’s probably fair, I read them back to back so they kind of blur together for me haha.

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The sequel even won the Hugo, so yea, I can’t wait to read it.

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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.

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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

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