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Project Hail Mary

You'll enjoy these titles because: Join our Sci-Fi book club to discuss "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, from 7:00 - 8:00 pm at the Main Branch. Looking for more lighthearted, compulsively-readable hard sci-fi about first contact, high stakes, the end of the world as we know it, and/or deep space? Check out these similar reads!

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  • Quite possibly the most commonly recommended next-read for "Project Hail Mary," "Seveneves" is a far-future story of the end of the world as we know it... and the descendants that return, five thousand years later, to the now-alien planet Earth.
    Book, 2015New York : William Morrow, 2015. — Science Fiction Stephenson
  • When Saturn's ice moon, Janus, falls out of orbit, Bella Lind and her crew are sent to mine the ice before it goes beyond their reach. But the moon's sudden change in course (and acceleration) are no natural phenomenon.
    Book, 2006New York : Ace Books, 2006. — Science Fiction Reynolds
  • The last humans left on a dying earth are lucky: their forebearers had the wherewithal to terraform another planet - to make it habitable for human life. But the planet Eden is no pristine garden, but one that's become home to different life forms -…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Orbit, [2018] — Science Fiction Tchaikovsky
  • When you hit "eject" on an escape pod, there's a certain degree of expectation mixed in with the panic: that you will survive, and that someone will pick you up and bring you somewhere safe. Sometimes, though, it takes 230 years, and "somewhere…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Orbit, 2019.
  • Bob Johansson has a leisurely life ahead of him... until he gets hit by a car and wakes up a century later as the consciousness controlling a massive interstellar probe with two options: go on the (cutthroat, highly competitive) hunt for habitable…
    Book, 2017[New York, NY] : Worldbuilders Press, 2017. — Science Fiction Taylor
  • "This is a hilarious sci-fi classic. Adams is a brilliantly witty storyteller with a knack for poking fun at humanity. Just remember, when traveling, always bring your towel!" - Erin K.
    Book, 2004New York : Harmony Books, [2004] — Science Fiction Adams
  • "This stand-alone sci-fi novella is a refreshing take on space exploration that poses the question: is the journey worth continuing if no one back home is listening? Or is returning home no matter what more important?" - Hannah M.
    Book, 2019New York : Harper Voyager an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — Science Fiction Chambers
  • "Impressive world-building sci-fi. Includes aliens, spaceships with built-in minds, and philosophical questions."
    Book, 2020New York : Tor, [2020] — Science Fiction Paolini
  • Tom Barren is from 2016... as imagined in the 1950s: an orderly, idealistic techno-utopia. When a time travel mishap lands him in *our* version of 2016, he has to decide: is it worth trying to fix the flaw in the timeline to bring back his own, or…
    Book, 2017New York : Dutton, 2017. — Fiction Mastai
  • "A psychedelic trip. Fall into unlimited multiverses and see what else your life could be like." - Rachel D.
    Book, 2016New York : Crown Publishers, [2016] — Fiction Crouch
  • "Although it has exactly one main character, it manages to be completely interesting and enjoyable. Even though I'm not a scientist, it seemed like Andy Weir did his homework and wrote a book that actually COULD happen" - Karen M.
    Book, 2014New York : Crown, 2014. — Science Fiction Weir
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    Book, 2021New York : Ballantine Books, [2021] — Science Fiction Weir