"Project Hail Mary" review — Grace saves the world at the hour of our death
“Amaze, amaze, amaze.” The Earth is dying. We all know it’s dying. News of human-wrought climate change has been a common topic in the past decades, prophecies of doom for our species and our world. For many, it’s a very familiar ache. The overwhelming, existential threat of climate change pushes people in extreme directions: grief, denial, or a desperate need to help. In the alternate present of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Project Hail Mary , the Earth is dying not from the horrors of climate change, but because the sun is being devoured by a single-cell alien life form called astrophage (Latin for “star eater”). The world isn’t at risk of heating up; it’s at risk of cooling down. Within a few short decades, food supplies will be depleted, and millions will die. And if the parasite doesn’t slow down, the sun will, eventually, completely die out, ending all life on Earth. What’s worse is that the astrophage is spreading across the cosmos, devouring stars throughout our corner of...
