11.9 Light-years from home.6th grade science teacher.1 chance to save us all.Watch the trailer for #ProjectHailMary – based on Andy Weir's New York Times bes...
The book was amazing, one of my all-time favorites. Can’t wait for this to release!
I’ve never read the book. Never heard of it actually. The early claim of “stars being infected except one” paired with comments in this thread made it clear there was an alien encounter. Nothing really seems spoiled to me. It maintains a comedic element throughout.
If anything, I’m somewhat more interested in it for not being like the trilo/quadrilogy (1) I was going to jokingly put it in: the unofficial Warhammer origin movies. Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Namely, a remake of Sunshine. These 3 movies introduce demonic beings brought on by space travel which is more or less accomplished by traveling through/near hell. A flaw, to me, is their late-plot reliance on downright supernatural abilities. I enjoyed the relatively solid scifi aspect (2) a lot until things used a godly deus ex machina to wrap it up. Maybe that’s my fault for not actually being into 40K.
(1) the 4th reference movie is Black Hole (1979), the Disney Star Wars before Disney Star Warred. As far as I’m concerned, Event Horizon is a remake.
(2) the solar shield on the 2nd ship in Pandorum should have absolutely roasted the back of the first ship upon rendezvous. The movie established reflections could slice metal. The convex shape of the shield would diminish the strength, but the much larger size should have done the trick. I know it was hot before and Mark Strong was naked, but I don’t think he would’ve been strong enough. Complete the nuke mission. God plot closed.
Edit: sorry to put yall through weird superscript formatting. It didn’t isolate the 1/2 like it did in reddit. Paranthesized instead
No spoilers - This is all in the trailer or back of the book-jacket kind of stuff.
The basic premise is that the sun is infected with something that’s absorbing energy and, if left untreated, the Earth is going to catastrophically cool down.
Tracing it back, they can identify which stars in the local cluster are infected and which infected which.
In the center is Tau Ceti which SHOULD be infected, but isn’t, and nobody knows why.
So the mission is to go to Tau Ceti, find out why it’s not infected, and get that information back to Earth.
I’ve never read the book. Never heard of it actually. The early claim of “stars being infected except one” paired with comments in this thread made it clear there was an alien encounter. Nothing really seems spoiled to me. It maintains a comedic element throughout.
If anything, I’m somewhat more interested in it for not being like the trilo/quadrilogy (1) I was going to jokingly put it in: the unofficial Warhammer origin movies. Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Namely, a remake of Sunshine. These 3 movies introduce demonic beings brought on by space travel which is more or less accomplished by traveling through/near hell. A flaw, to me, is their late-plot reliance on downright supernatural abilities. I enjoyed the relatively solid scifi aspect (2) a lot until things used a godly deus ex machina to wrap it up. Maybe that’s my fault for not actually being into 40K.
(1) the 4th reference movie is Black Hole (1979), the Disney Star Wars before Disney Star Warred. As far as I’m concerned, Event Horizon is a remake.
(2) the solar shield on the 2nd ship in Pandorum should have absolutely roasted the back of the first ship upon rendezvous. The movie established reflections could slice metal. The convex shape of the shield would diminish the strength, but the much larger size should have done the trick. I know it was hot before and Mark Strong was naked, but I don’t think he would’ve been strong enough. Complete the nuke mission. God plot closed.
Edit: sorry to put yall through weird superscript formatting. It didn’t isolate the 1/2 like it did in reddit. Paranthesized instead
Oh I’m gonna have to see Pandorum! Thanks for the reply.
No spoilers - This is all in the trailer or back of the book-jacket kind of stuff.
The basic premise is that the sun is infected with something that’s absorbing energy and, if left untreated, the Earth is going to catastrophically cool down.
Tracing it back, they can identify which stars in the local cluster are infected and which infected which.
In the center is Tau Ceti which SHOULD be infected, but isn’t, and nobody knows why.
So the mission is to go to Tau Ceti, find out why it’s not infected, and get that information back to Earth.