Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Hard science-fiction, Science-fiction, Sci-fi, Hard sci-fi
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
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Epic, plot-driven, resolved and relentless.
20 profiled raters. Loved most by The Cartographers; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
Popcorn science fiction with a heart. Rocky is the best alien in decades because the book lets him be a friend, not a puzzle.
Two scientists, one problem, a lot of maths, and a friendship I would die for. Read it before the film, and then read it again.
A few lines from each review; the whole review is on the critic's site. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
In “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir, a former science teacher is the planet’s only hope.
Data provided by The New York Times.
On Open Library, 281 have read it and 1,001 want to.
““What’s two plus two?””
Andy Weir built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, THE MARTIAN, allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this Andy Weir's best work?”
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“Is it the best hard science-fiction book of its decade?”
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“Does it tie things up too neatly?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
