Project Hail Mary

A most enjoyable read, it's basically The Martian turned up to 11 with aliens! Ryland Grace is pretty much exactly Mark Watney except he's using his sciencey problem solving skills to save Earth not just himself.

The post-coma mushy memory is a nice narrative device. There's lots of interesting sciencey stuff that I'm barely clever enough to understand and certainly not smart enough to disprove.

All-in-all a quite bizarre storyline, gets increasingly weirder and culminates with a totally unexpected ending.

It's a fun and easy read, kind of a sweet buddy movie set in space. If you like The Martian you'll enjoy this.