Freya’s Reviews > Project Hail Mary > Status Update

Stratt is more like Lucretia than I realized. They didn’t mention the intentional amnesia in the movie (or I missed it). Both are women put into positions of leadership making deductions on behalf of the whole world to save it, and forcing their closest friends to forget that they disagreed with her methods. Wow

Assuming the flashbacks were getting are from Ryland remembering them, why has he not acknowledged or questioned (before we got the explosion flashback) why HE is on the Hail Mary? He remembered training the two science astronauts, he remembered not even considering volunteering. Rocky said that he and Grace were good people. But Grace didn’t volunteer.

Rocky…

Yay they figured it out! It wasn’t clear in the movie that the astrophange was FROM Adrian. Or at least, I didn’t catch that. And the whole idea that ALL life in the galaxy came from one place wasn’t clear either. They certainly had to leave things out in the movie.

I wonder how much of this book Wurli actually understood. He read it so fast, I wonder how well he comprehends the books he reads.

I’ve understood much of the science described in this book so far, but the stuff about radiation and neutrinos went a little over my head.

Rockyy

In this version, Grace successfully catches both messages from the alien ship. I looked up the star that the Eridians are from, it’s either a red main sequence star or a white dwarf. I wonder if that comes into play in this story.

This book is so good. I wonder how Grace being sent on the mission differs from the movie. In the book, there’s the aspect of the coma resistant gene, which he must have. In the movie, they didn’t address this, to my memory. And in the book, he seems to have a lot of training on the Hail Mary specifically. I don’t think he had time for that in the movie, right?