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Ryland Grace, the sole survivor of a multinational space vessel, awakens with fragmented memories and finds himself millions of miles from Earth, accompanied only by two corpses. Confused about his mission and identity, he must quickly piece together the circumstances that put humanity on the brink of collapse. With the ship’s crew dead and the threat imminent, Grace faces an impossible task: to solve an extinction‑level danger alone. The novel blends hard‑science predictions with a tense interstellar odyssey, offering a new frontier of discovery, speculation, and survival that rivals The Martian in scope and intensity.
First publish date: 2021
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Andy Weir
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