

The book is hard to put down because it’s riveting and has a clever sense of humour. Alone on this tiny ship that’s been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it’s up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.Īnd thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.Īndy Weir is a former software engineer and the author of three novels, The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and the graphic novel Cheshire Crossing. Blind Lake is one of the books like Project Hail Mary where the story could really happen in our real world.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.Īll he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Įxcept that right now, he doesn’t know that.
