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Feature review: PROJECT HAIL MARY
Ryan Gosling lends crucial humanity to the sci-fi procedural.
Andy Weir writes kick-ass situations; characters, he’s not so much concerned with. That’s what makes his books great beach-read page-turners, and also makes them so ripe for improvement with a real movie star in the lead. If you’ve read either The Martian or Project Hail Mary —it’s less likely you read the intervening novel, Artemis —you know that Weir, a trained engineer, packs his stories with intriguing puzzles for his isolated protagonists to, in the immortal words of The Martian , “science the shit out of.”
Give those protagonists a human face, though—say, the face of Matt Damon or Ryan…
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