Grace is living a peaceful life teaching children, when he is suddenly contacted by Eva Stratt, the head of a United Nations Task force. Weir’s Project Hail Mary is centred around Ryland Grace, a molecule biologist turned high school teacher. One of his cats JoJo (he has two!) makes a surprise appearance during the interview, with Weir calling him adorable. Through the conversation, Weir was affable and good humoured, peppering his answers with little quips and hard science references. It would be amazing, it would completely change space travel as it is, ” says Weir, speaking during a recent Zoom interview from his home in California, the United States.
“If you had a fuel like that, you could fly around the solar system with a just few hundred litres of it. “I had always wondered, what could you do with a maximally efficient spaceship fuel? A fuel that would turn mass into energy, in the form of light, and send it out the back of your ship. What fuelled the plot of this interstellar adventure? Believe it or not, the idea came while Weir was thinking about actual fuel. that’s set 12 light years away from Earth. Project Hail Mary, an action-packed, fast-moving book, takes place in the Tau Ceti star system. In fact, he’s leaving our solar system entirely. In 2017, Weir returned to the spotlight with his second book Artemis, which took place on a city on the Moon.įor his latest book Project Hail Mary, Weir goes beyond anything he’s ever done. His 2011 debut novel The Martian, the harrowing story of an astronaut stranded on Mars, was turned into a critically-acclaimed blockbuster movie in 2015, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon.
In the last few years, American author Andy Weir has been thrilling readers with exciting adventures beyond the planet Earth.
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