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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

The Book Pile

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The Smartest People in the Room

Rocky is this incredible alien engineer with a photographic memory and incinability to understand complex ideas. Ryland is an intelligent resourceful scientist. It's like he's Ron Weasley and Ryland is all the babies in that room I mentioned earlier. The conflict comes from the relentless problems around them, like an on board astrophage infection or part of the ship exploding or both of their solar systems on the verge of total annihilation.

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