Book Study, PROJECT HAIL MARY, Andy Weir

Published 2021; 496 pages

Dialectic Journal/Lesson plans: 200 pages, 140,907 words.

A Major Picture at the Theaters.

Dr. Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship in another solar system and after a few chapters he discovers who he is and who the other two dead people on his space-ship were.  Then he starts to remember.  Eva Stratt has recruited him among all other qualified scientists to save the earth.  The solar ystem of our sun was dying and it was a matter of time when the Earth's population would die of starvation because the sun didn't shine.

And other Systems were dying also.  Grace meets Rocky, an engineer from another planet. trying to do the same thing.  He is better building. but a willing partner to learn more science from the middle-school science teacher from Earth. The improbable duo team up to save All the systems who have been infected and are slowly or quickly are dying.  

Sad tale? No.  These are the modern comedians of Space and they share their struggles (mainly funny}, with the lucky reader.