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Grace spends months alone in a dark ship, talking to himself. Weir captures the psychological toll of genuine solitude—not the romanticized version, but the screaming, hallucinating, desperate loneliness of being the last human in the universe.

The only solution? Send a ship to the Tau Ceti system, 12 light-years away, to find a solution. The problem is that the mission, dubbed Project Hail Mary , requires a one-way trip. Grace, a pacifist and non-astronaut, is forced into the role of sole surviving scientist when the original crew dies during launch. project hail mary