Books like Project Hail Mary

By Andy Weir

Try unfamiliar intelligence, a reluctant protector or a scientific puzzle about getting home.

For unfamiliar intelligence and survival

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Two civilizations with very different ways of understanding the world face a struggle over a habitable planet.

The difference: Generations and species replace a single narrator’s experiments.

Martha Wells

A security unit would rather watch entertainment than deal with people, but a sabotaged research mission makes it protect its human team.

The difference: A short, action-led novella with less scientific calculation.

Blake Crouch

A physicist wakes in a version of his life where his family is missing and must work out how to get back.

The difference: Darker family suspense built around parallel worlds.

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