Everything that happened after that was an exercise in problem solving that drove the plot. Artemis therefore lacked the primal force of Mark Watney’s dilemma in The Martian: he was stuck alone on an alien planet and he was “fucked”. He’s not great at characterisation and the problems faced by Artemis’s protagonist, Jazz – a host of enemies, along with several difficult interrelationships – do not play to Weir’s strengths as a science nerd interested in physics and computer engineering. I thought this was somewhat promising since Artemis had revealed Weir’s limitations as a writer. So I’ll try to limit my comments to what might be gleaned by an intuitive reader who has read Weir’s previous books, and to aspects of the novel alluded to on its back cover.Īndy Weir’s latest space drama has more in common with his first novel, The Martian, than his previous novel, Artemis. Project Hail Mary is plot driven and so it is difficult to discuss it without spoiling some of the novel’s most interesting features which rely upon being revealed.
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