Katelyn Buxton’s Reviews > Project Hail Mary > Status Update

I think one of the reasons Ryland Grace is not a believable character is not the fact that he never shuts up (he doesn’t—like, ever), but the fact that he never appears to experience a genuine emotion. He has to cry for us to know he’s sad, there’s no other cues. He’s in a life-or-death situation and the spunky narration never changes, he just slaps some science on it and it’s fine.

“During this trial, we will show that the Project Hail Mary has over-stepped its authority in the matter of digital data acquisition and licensing. They have… a gigantic solid-state-drive array upon which they have copied literally every single piece of software that has ever been copyrighted, as well as every single book and literary work…”

Turns out nobody cares if you steal the whole internet IRL 😐