Quando Ryland Grace si risveglia, non ha assolutamente idea di dove si trovi né di chi sia. Vede solo che il suo corpo è collegato a decine di tubi, che gli oggetti intorno a lui cadono troppo velocemente e che i suoi due compagni di viaggio giacciono inermi nello spazio angusto che condividono. Poi, lentamente, la memoria riaffiora: Grace si trova a migliaia di chilometri dalla Terra, su una minuscola navicella spaziale lanciata a tutta velocità nelle profondità insondate dello spazio, unico sopravvissuto di una missione disperata per salvare il pianeta. Se fallisce, l'umanità è destinata a sparire a causa di misteriosi organismi che si nutrono dell'energia solare e che stanno rapidamente portando la Terra verso una nuova era glaciale. A bordo di Hail Mary , Grace è consapevole che ha pochissimo tempo a disposizione per neutralizzare il pericoloso nemico e che il destino della specie dipende unicamente da lui. …
Quando Ryland Grace si risveglia, non ha assolutamente idea di dove si trovi né di chi sia. Vede solo che il suo corpo è collegato a decine di tubi, che gli oggetti intorno a lui cadono troppo velocemente e che i suoi due compagni di viaggio giacciono inermi nello spazio angusto che condividono. Poi, lentamente, la memoria riaffiora: Grace si trova a migliaia di chilometri dalla Terra, su una minuscola navicella spaziale lanciata a tutta velocità nelle profondità insondate dello spazio, unico sopravvissuto di una missione disperata per salvare il pianeta. Se fallisce, l'umanità è destinata a sparire a causa di misteriosi organismi che si nutrono dell'energia solare e che stanno rapidamente portando la Terra verso una nuova era glaciale. A bordo di Hail Mary , Grace è consapevole che ha pochissimo tempo a disposizione per neutralizzare il pericoloso nemico e che il destino della specie dipende unicamente da lui. O forse non è solo? Dopo il grande successo di L'uomo di Marte , Andy Weir torna con una nuova odissea spaziale, ricca di suspense, humour e sorprese.
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Spoilers about the "unexpected ally"
I love sci-fi that's well-grounded in reality, and for the most part PHM is just that. I also love stories where the aliens are friendly. All too often first-contact media is about immediately assuming the worst of any foreign entities, so a story about two species working together against a common threat is refreshing. Grace and Rocky are great characters.
Da wacht also mal wieder jemand in einem Raumschiff auf. Ohne Gedächtnis, damit Vorgeschichte und Weltallgeschehen parallel erzählt werden können. Die Erde ist bedroht, ein Amerikaner wird sie retten – auf einer Mission ohne Rückfahrschein. Klassischer geht es nicht.
Das waren meine ersten Gedanken zu „Project Hail Mary“ und ich wollte das Buch schon abtun – als unterhaltsam, aber vorhersehbar. Doch das täte Andy Weir Unrecht. Freunde hatten mir das Buch empfohlen, und mit der Zeit wurde mir auch klar, warum: Das Fesselnde ist hier die Wissenschaft, weniger die Fiktion.
Project Hail Mary kitzelt den Teil meiner Persönlichkeit, der die Weiten des Weltalls, die Faszination des Unbekannten und die Abgründe der Physik bestaunt. Das gesamte Abenteuer ist eine launige Reihe von Experimenten, die dem Protagonisten mehr über die Wirklichkeit verraten.
Weir erzählt eine Geschichte, die von Physik nur so strotzt – ohne dass die Erzählung oder der …
Da wacht also mal wieder jemand in einem Raumschiff auf. Ohne Gedächtnis, damit Vorgeschichte und Weltallgeschehen parallel erzählt werden können. Die Erde ist bedroht, ein Amerikaner wird sie retten – auf einer Mission ohne Rückfahrschein. Klassischer geht es nicht.
Das waren meine ersten Gedanken zu „Project Hail Mary“ und ich wollte das Buch schon abtun – als unterhaltsam, aber vorhersehbar. Doch das täte Andy Weir Unrecht. Freunde hatten mir das Buch empfohlen, und mit der Zeit wurde mir auch klar, warum: Das Fesselnde ist hier die Wissenschaft, weniger die Fiktion.
Project Hail Mary kitzelt den Teil meiner Persönlichkeit, der die Weiten des Weltalls, die Faszination des Unbekannten und die Abgründe der Physik bestaunt. Das gesamte Abenteuer ist eine launige Reihe von Experimenten, die dem Protagonisten mehr über die Wirklichkeit verraten.
Weir erzählt eine Geschichte, die von Physik nur so strotzt – ohne dass die Erzählung oder der theoretische Hintergrund darunter leiden. Seine Schilderungen bleiben verständlich, ohne trivial zu werden. Ich fühlte mich beim Lesen als Nerd angesprochen, aber nie durch zweckmäßige Vereinfachungen betrogen.
Ich bin (in diesem Sinne) glücklicherweise kein Physiker und konnte das Buch genießen, ohne mich an fachlichen Fehlern zu stoßen. Die Erzählung selbst ist unterhaltsam, wenn auch nicht herausragend. Die kräftige Würze mit Wissenschaft macht daraus aber ein großes Vergnügen, das ich gern weiterempfehle.
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Un pelín de destripe, un pelín de hate.
Ha llegado al aprobado porque la premisa y su desarrollo me han volado la cabeza de lo original y bien llevado. Las ideas son súper interesantes y consigue que el discurso científico sea ameno aún cuando a veces te supere un poco (Esa sensación de "no sé de qué coño me hablas, pero a tope").
Tiene un ritmo excelente, de esos libros que saben ir de un conflicto a otro sin perder fuelle y que el hecho de que sepa aguantarte un sólo personaje durante casi 500 páginas yo lo llamo un logro.
Pero lo malo. Ai, lo malo:
-No soy yo astronauta ni científica y aún así sé que no se tocan materiales desconocidos con la piel desnuda. O que cuando entras en un ambiente desconocido antes hay que estudiarlo. O que las piezas son preciadas y no se lanzan al espacio así como así. Hay tanto comportamiento irracional en esa nave que me tenía de los nervios.
-Digo que sabe aguantar, pero la realidad es que el guasón mononeuronal del protagonista casi consigue que abandone el libro.
-El alienígena salvándolos con un deus ex machina de la ingeniería cada vez se vuelve muy increíble muy rápido.
-Casi 500 páginas y el libro pasa el test de Bechdel por una(1) unidad de diálogo hacia la mitad. Aplauso lento aquí.
-En The Martian la comandante y su equipo lo abandonan. Aquí ha decidido matarlos. La cosa es que sólo quede un señor blanco cis hetero a cualquier precio.
-El libro está escrito en un idioma que tiene género neutro, pero el alien hermafrodita es "he" toda la puta novela.
I enjoyed this work quite a bit. The only criticism I have is that at some point in the novel you reach crisis fatigue. Yes, piloting a starship based on technology that's been developed in the past year or so is going to present some issues, but it sometimes feels like it's unrelenting.
I enjoyed this work quite a bit. The only criticism I have is that at some point in the novel you reach crisis fatigue. Yes, piloting a starship based on technology that's been developed in the past year or so is going to present some issues, but it sometimes feels like it's unrelenting.
This book instantly became one of my top 10 favorites.
The humor and the science is a big draw for me. Everything is so thuroughly explained to the point where you learn while you're sucked into the world and environment. The chemistry is the most interesting that I have ever read.
Right around the half-way mark I started to fall into the world more. I was sucked in and couldnt get out. Once I finished I just stared at the page hoping that once I blinked more pages would appear; I just wanted more even though the ending was quite succinct.
This is absolutely a great read, another banger by Andy Weir~!
This book instantly became one of my top 10 favorites.
The humor and the science is a big draw for me. Everything is so thuroughly explained to the point where you learn while you're sucked into the world and environment. The chemistry is the most interesting that I have ever read.
Right around the half-way mark I started to fall into the world more. I was sucked in and couldnt get out. Once I finished I just stared at the page hoping that once I blinked more pages would appear; I just wanted more even though the ending was quite succinct.
This is absolutely a great read, another banger by Andy Weir~!
Me ha encantado. Es muy entretenido y siempre están pasando cosas. El robo es desenfadado y el nivel de ciencia no es muy alto, diría que lo disfrutas si sabes de los temas pero que no es necesario para pasar un buen rato leyendo.
Me ha encantado. Es muy entretenido y siempre están pasando cosas. El robo es desenfadado y el nivel de ciencia no es muy alto, diría que lo disfrutas si sabes de los temas pero que no es necesario para pasar un buen rato leyendo.
This is my first review of a book and is a kind of reaction to the one star commentaries that I saw. For sure I have read The Martian a while back and I can see that this book is similar, but I think a lot of people enjoy it (like I did) because of those similarities. Sure, there are a lot of cliché characters but in the kind of hopefully vision of the future that is lacking right now. The stereotipe of scientists from Russia, China, America and other places that set aside differences to save the world is a much needed hope that if the world is at stake we will all come together. Sure, the book is not all fairies and rainbows, the hero is actually a coward sent against is will to save humanity and in the mean time there is almost a surety that there …
This is my first review of a book and is a kind of reaction to the one star commentaries that I saw. For sure I have read The Martian a while back and I can see that this book is similar, but I think a lot of people enjoy it (like I did) because of those similarities. Sure, there are a lot of cliché characters but in the kind of hopefully vision of the future that is lacking right now. The stereotipe of scientists from Russia, China, America and other places that set aside differences to save the world is a much needed hope that if the world is at stake we will all come together. Sure, the book is not all fairies and rainbows, the hero is actually a coward sent against is will to save humanity and in the mean time there is almost a surety that there will be wars and the usual humans in the time of an apocalypse, but the overall tone is optimistic and upbeat and is what a lot of us need sometime. So is a fast and entertaining lecture, that you maybe forget after a while what is about, but you will remember that you felt good reading it.
"A fórmula de El Marciano repítese de xeito demasiado evidente. Resulta entretido, e con coñecementos de ensino secundario podes desfrutar lembrando aquelas asignaturas de física e química. Parecese que entendes algo."
"O libro é fácil de ler, podes ler aos poucos sen problema de perder o fío da historia xa que non ten dobleces no argumento, nin significados ou reflexións que requiran un nivel de concentración elevado."
"A fórmula de El Marciano repítese de xeito demasiado evidente. Resulta entretido, e con coñecementos de ensino secundario podes desfrutar lembrando aquelas asignaturas de física e química. Parecese que entendes algo."
"O libro é fácil de ler, podes ler aos poucos sen problema de perder o fío da historia xa que non ten dobleces no argumento, nin significados ou reflexións que requiran un nivel de concentración elevado."
I think this will be the book I recommend the most this year. It is entertaining from beginning to end. If you like sci-fi or space stories, read it. If you don't, read it anyway because you will laugh. It is very rare that I tear through a book in the span of a day, but, and I apologise for the cliché, I could not put this book down.
I think this will be the book I recommend the most this year. It is entertaining from beginning to end. If you like sci-fi or space stories, read it. If you don't, read it anyway because you will laugh. It is very rare that I tear through a book in the span of a day, but, and I apologise for the cliché, I could not put this book down.
