Science Fiction

Literature

Artemis 2: the Moon Between Literature and the Stars

Artemis 2 launched yesterday toward the Moon, but literature arrived there over a century ago. A journey through the books that dreamed the voyage before it was possible.

News

Project Hail Mary: How a Hard Sci-Fi Novel Conquered the World

Ryan Gosling, five million copies sold, Rocky memes everywhere, and a legion of readers who'd never touched a sci-fi book. How did Andy Weir pull it off?

Literature

Rocky and Grace: The Friendship That Saved Two Worlds

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary isn't just hard science fiction. It's a love story — not romantic, but the deepest kind: two beings who share neither biology, nor language, nor planet, yet become the closest thing to home.

Reviews

What Project Hail Mary Gets Right About Astrobiology

Andy Weir's novel isn't just thrilling fiction — it's a surprisingly rigorous thought experiment about alien biochemistry, stellar physics, and the fragile thread connecting a dying sun to a microorganism that could end everything.