Our narrator is being asked math questions by a computer. It takes a while to gain back their facilities before they can answer. They are attached to a bunch of tubes. After they regain the ability to move robot arms remove most of the tubes. A cathader, a butt tube and an IV. The computer asks our narrator their name. The narrator has no idea what their name is. But it's a white guy so he guesses John and the computer says incorrect. Next time our narrator wakes up, little robot arms are shaving his face. He jumps out of his bed and the IV and butt tube come out OK. The catheter comes out with much more pain.
Flashback: narrator is eating breakfast at a diner in San Francisco and he reads an email from a Russian lady about odd IR light activity in our solar system.
Narrator wakes up from the flashback and is underwhelmed by the lack of useful information.
There's two other beds in the room with people and they're both dead. Like been dead for a long time cause they look.like mummies.
The computer gives narrator a tube of food. He feels stronger and is able to climb up a ladder to another room. In that room he does physics and calculates the gravity here is 15 mpss not 9.8 like it should be. So he's not on earth.
CH 2 pg 20
Narrator does some more physics and then has a flashback and realizes he's on a spaceship. The two mummies are people he knew. A lady named Marisa and a military guy he can't remember the name of. But he still can't remembehis own r name. Commence uncontrollable sobbing. Another flashback and he remembers the reason he's on this mission is the IR oddness mentioned before is actually draining the sun. Its like Venus is draining the sun.
The ship keeps telling him “Angular anomaly" and he assumes that means the ship needs some sort of course correction but he has no idea how to steer this ship. He remembers something else about himself. He's a teacher.
CH 3 pg 34
Our narrator has a flashback to his teaching days. Sixth period has just finished and he's looking forward to chillaxing in the teachers lounge with a cup of coffee. “Ryland Grace?” said a woman’s voice. She tells him he's on the team to study why the sun is dying. It's mainly because of a paper he wrote back in his academic days about how you don't need water for life. It pretty much ended his academic career cause it was so whckypants. She tells him they think they found life on Venus and it might be what's killing the sun. They want him to study it. He doesn't want to. But when he goes home the FBI is there to abduct him. The lady is at the place they take him and she says welcome to your new lab.
He comes out of the flashback and tells the computer his name.
His name gets him into the pilot's cabin. There's all sorts of screens and what not. It turns out the angular anomaly was just an informational message to let him know that his measured speed didn't match his actual speed. He flashes back to his time in the lab. The short story is they have found life on Venus. It consumes energy from the sun and then uses that energy to emit light, which it uses as a means of locomotion. We go back to the ship. There's a screen focusing on the sun. Doing some science he comes to the conclusion that this isn't our sun. He's in another solar system.
CH 4 pg 54
Lots of flashback in this chapter. Ryland is doing a lot of lab work on the alien algae that he has named Astrophage. It doesn't reflect light, its always black to look at. Radiation doesn't have an affect on it. But he kills one by stabbing it with a nano needle and does a bit of an autopsy. He finds that they are mostly water and that makes him sad cause it goes against his life without water theory. And also how does something made of water live on the sun? Back from the flashback on the spaceship he sees that one of the screens is labeled Astrophage and its what is powering the ship. It has a constant temperature of a bit above 94 degrees Celsius. Maybe that's how something made of water can live on the sun cause it can keep that constant temperature.
Flashback again, the lady in charge of the lab tells Ryland she's having the astrophage shipped off to a bunch of other labs all over the world to be investigated. Ryland wants to keep investigation and she says she can't give him any astrophage cause they're all spoken for. Each lab is only getting five. He begs and pleads and cries about his kids and she says he can have 3.
Back on the space ship he realizes this is a one way mission. He's sent to gather info and then put it on four ships named after the Beatles to send it back to earth. He's gonna die here all alone.
CH 5 pg 74
This chapter is all flashback.
He does a bunch of science and figures out the reproductive cycle of the astrophage. They gather up energy on the sun. Then they go to the north pole of the sun and launch off. Then once they're far enough away from the sun to detect a source of CO2 they use the stored up energy to go there and once they hit the CO2 they reproduce. Then they go back to the sun and do it all over again. He's able to get one of his three to reproduce. He tells the leader lady about this and says cool, we gotta go.
An army guy takes him to a chopper, which takes him to a plane, which takes him to Hawaii. Another plane takes him to an aircraft carrier and then a chopper takes him to a Chinese aircraft carrier. All these super smart people that have been doing astrophage experiments are here. They talk about how they need to make a lot more astrophage and get it fully charged up so they can use it to power a spaceship to get to another solar system. They call the.project hail Mary. His ship is named Hail Mary so obviously this plan worked. The question now is where is he going and why. The where is a star named Tau Ceti and the why is that it's the only star they're aware of that isn't infected by the Astrophage. Every other nearby star has gone down by 10% if the sun goes down by 10% earth won't be able to support human life anymore.
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