Project Hail Mary

[CptTrips]

Liked the book.
Hopefully the movie is good.  I thought The Martian was good so hoping...

[AKIron]

I liked the book too.

[Devil 505]

The novel is fantastic. I'm psyched for this film.

[CptTrips]

The novel is fantastic. I'm psyched for this film.

 

Fist my bump!

[AKIron]

So what's some other good sci-fi reading as of late?

[Devil 505]

So what's some other good sci-fi reading as of late?

I've been digging The Expanse. I know, I'm a bit late to the party.

[AKIron]

I've been digging The Expanse. I know, I'm a bit late to the party.

Read the first book years ago. And watched the series. Maybe I should read more of the books in the series.

[Brooke]

I'm listening to the audio book with wife and daughters.  We love it.  We are about half way through, I think.

We'll make sure to see the movie.  We really liked The Martian as well.

I'm a little disappointed they didn't cast Bobcat Goldthwait in the lead, but Ryan Gosling will be pretty good.

[CptTrips]

I'm listening to the audio book with wife and daughters.  We love it.  We are about half way through, I think.

We'll make sure to see the movie.  We really liked The Martian as well.

I'm a little disappointed they didn't cast Bobcat Goldthwait in the lead, but Ryan Gosling will be pretty good.

I listened to it on Audible too.  AS I'm sure you know, the story is uniquely suited for audio.

Bobcat Goldthwait?  Am I not remembering something from the book?  I didn't even know he was still alive.

To be honest I just imagined Matt Damon again.  Weir writes fun stories but to be honest his main characters seem to be one-notes.  The main characters seemed to have the same personality even if they have different backgrounds.  I don't mind.  It makes for a fun story.

Gosling will be an adequate stand-in.  I like most of his stuff.  Well, maybe not The Notebook.

You know Rendezvous with Rama is in production.  That was one of my top 3-4 favorite books.

[AKIron]

Though I enjoyed it I was glad to be done reading PHM. One escalating crisis after another. Even more than The Martian. Wears ya out.

[CptTrips]

Though I enjoyed it I was glad to be done reading PHM. One escalating crisis after another. Even more than The Martian. Wears ya out.

Hey dude, saving the galaxy is hard work!

I was think this character is a biologist.  The Martian was a biologist.  They have the same persona.

He should have had Mark Watney retire from NASA to go teach biology and write a paper and end up getting picked for PHM!  The continued space adventures of a snarky biologist!

He'd be the new wise-cracking Gilgamesh in space! 


[Edit]  Well he was a Botanist anyway which is a sub-discipline of Biology.

[CptTrips]

I have to admit the plot twist at the end was a nice touch.  I wasn't expecting that.

[AKKuya]

Hail Mary should've been the title of the George Clooney/ Sandra Bullock film Gravity.  That was the best series of Hail Marys used for a film.

I never read the book but look forward to the film next year.

[CptTrips]

Hail Mary should've been the title of the George Clooney/ Sandra Bullock film Gravity.  That was the best series of Hail Marys used for a film.

I never read the book but look forward to the film next year.

Yeah.  Everyone raved on that movie.  It was OK.

[AKIron]

Gravity was sorely lacking in the physics department. You don't have two non thrusting objects in the same orbit going different speeds. You can have two different orbits that intersect at a point but that's not what they did.

Do some docking with two spacecraft in KSP and you'll understand.