Both literally and figuratively, Project Hail Mary is — out of this world!
If you haven't heard of the premise of Project Hail Mary, I'm getting to sum it up briefly now. Ryland Grace may be a lone astronaut with a task to save lots of Earth from disaster, but he's alone, and he has no memories of what went on before. He has got to find how to save lots of Earth from disaster, then come home, all by himself. See? It's practically the premise of The Martian with a replacement addition of saving the planet.
This isn't a carbon of The Martian; Weir still managed to create Project Hail Mary a special book besides the incredibly similar premise and storytelling structure.
Ryland Grace wakes up miles away from his home, lying down on a soft bed, surrounded by cameras watching his every move, wearing breathing mask tight on his face, naked, connected to more tubes that he could count! And this is often not the sole weird thing about his situation: he's amid two corpses and as a computer keeps asking what's two plus two. He didn't remember anything about himself including his name! And as we discover more about him by catching glimpses from his past, we realize this man is the only hope to save lots of the universe and he's the sole survivor of desperate deep space mission (you may call it suicide mission) Through the scattered quick flashbacks, we gather more information how he was assigned for this project!