WTF 89 “Project Hail Mary” (2026)

About this episode

The episode discusses the plot of 'Project Hail Mary', a hard Sci-Fi novel by Andy Weir, featuring a character with amnesia on a spaceship.

Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher, played by Ryan Gosling wakes up and finds himself on a spaceship with amnesia and alone. This is how Project Hail Mary begins, taken from a hard Sci-Fi novel written by Andy Weir who also wrote The Martian.

Topics covered

• Sci-Fi
• space exploration
• amnesia
• novel adaptation
• Ryan Gosling

Keywords

• Project Hail Mary
• Andy Weir
• Ryan Gosling
• Sci-Fi
• space
• amnesia
• novel

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Project Hail Mary, The Martian

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