Project Hail Mary
HUGO AWARD FINALIST ⢠ONE OF THE YEARāS BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal ⢠āAn epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.āāUSA Today
āIf you loved The Martian, youāll go crazy for Weirās latest.āāThe Washington Post
RylandĀ Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance missionāand if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesnāt know that. He canāt even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that heās been asleep for a very, very long time. And heās just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, itās up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mysteryāand conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, heās got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martianāwhile taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
Cheshire Crossing
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Originating as fan fiction from the brilliant imagination of Andy Weir, now brought to vivid life by Sarah Andersen,Ā Cheshire CrossingĀ is a funny, breakneck, boundlessly inventive journey through classic worlds as youāve never seen them before.
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Years after their respective returns from Wonderland, Neverland, and Oz, the trioĀ meet here, at Cheshire Crossingāa boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers.
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ButĀ Alice, Wendy, and Dorothyānow teenagers, whoāve had their fill of meddling authority figuresāarenāt content to sit still in a classroom. Soon theyāre dashing from one universe to the next, leaving havoc in their wakeāand, inadvertently, bringing the Wicked Witch and Hook together in a deadly supervillain love match.
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To stop them, the girls will have to draw on all of their powers . . . and marshal a team of unlikely allies from across the magical multiverse.
Advance praise for Cheshire Crossing
āDeliciously funny . . . a shrewd and spirited adaptation that will leave audiences hoping for another installment . . . Andersenās delightful cartoon drawing style meshes perfectly with Weirās prose, allowing the work to broaden its appeal beyond middle graders to young adults and adults.āāKirkus ReviewsĀ (starred review)
Artemis
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
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Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanityās first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt sheās owed for a long time.
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So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz canāt say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosionsānot to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect canāt handle, and she figures sheās got the āswaggerā part down.
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The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazzās problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.
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Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit sheās in way over her head. Sheāll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city.
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Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal.
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Thatāll have to do.
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Propelled by its heroineās wisecracking voice, set in a city thatās at once stunningly imagined and intimately familiar, and brimming over with clever problem-solving and heist-y fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.
The Martian
Nominated as one of Americaās best-loved novels by PBSās The Great American Read
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that heās aliveāand even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.
Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.
But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skillsāand a relentless, dogged refusal to quitāhe steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
About Andy Weir
Photo: Ā© Aubrie Pick
Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.
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