Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

“gentlemen’s equipment,”

Right that is perfect

“Bah.”

Me hungry me big man me need more food

Oh, thank God. I’m a teacher.

Please

Thirty years. I looked out at their little faces. In thirty years they’d all be in their early forties. They would bear the brunt of it all. And it wouldn’t be easy. These kids were going to grow up in an idyllic world and be thrown into an apocalyptic nightmare.

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