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By Lenny Picker |
In Weir’s
Project Hail Mary (Ballantine, May.), amnesiac astronaut Ryland Grace must piece together his past in order to save humanity from an impending crisis.
What inspired Project Hail Mary?
I had a book I was working on for quite some time before deciding it just wasn’t working. But there were a couple of storytelling elements there that I thought were really cool; one of them was a character who had an unbelievable amount of secret authority. She could say the word, and any government would obey her. So I took that and also the idea of a mass-conversion spacecraft fuel, a fuel that is the most efficient possible. Then I had an unrelated idea, just bouncing around in my head, of a guy who wakes up with amnesia, and he’s aboard a spaceship. So it was like I had a bunch of spare parts in my workshop, and I put them together into something that worked.