{"id":339920,"date":"2026-03-20T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:43:07","slug":"think-project-hail-mary-is-fantastic-youre-not-wrong-but-its-author-has-written-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339920\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Project Hail Mary is fantastic? You’re not wrong, but its author has written more."},"content":{"rendered":"

Love Project Hail Mary<\/a>? We can’t blame you. Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel, which begins with an astronaut waking up aboard an apparently abandoned spaceship, is absolutely riveting. In fact, we spoke with Andy Weir<\/a> to talk about the astrobiology behind the latest book-adapted motion picture.<\/p>\n

Now the movie, starring Ryan Gosling, is on course to clean up at the box office, echoing the success of The Martian,<\/a> another movie based on Weir’s work. On top of that, another book, Artemis, has already been optioned as a film.<\/p>\n

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All of that might have you wondering, which other Weir works are worth investigating? And where can you go to find them?<\/p>\n

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We’ve rounded up all the author’s books below, including a trio of Audible audiobooks. The last two are not strictly sci-fi, but if you’re hooked on Weir, they’re well worth investigating. And for a peek inside the author’s mind, read our interview about Andy Weir’s thoughts on alien life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love Project Hail Mary? We can’t blame you. Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel, which begins with an astronaut waking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-339920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}