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Rocky…

Yay they figured it out! It wasn’t clear in the movie that the astrophange was FROM Adrian. Or at least, I didn’t catch that. And the whole idea that ALL life in the galaxy came from one place wasn’t clear either. They certainly had to leave things out in the movie.

I’ve understood much of the science described in this book so far, but the stuff about radiation and neutrinos went a little over my head.

Rockyy

In this version, Grace successfully catches both messages from the alien ship. I looked up the star that the Eridians are from, it’s either a red main sequence star or a white dwarf. I wonder if that comes into play in this story.

This book is so good. I wonder how Grace being sent on the mission differs from the movie. In the book, there’s the aspect of the coma resistant gene, which he must have. In the movie, they didn’t address this, to my memory. And in the book, he seems to have a lot of training on the Hail Mary specifically. I don’t think he had time for that in the movie, right?

Knowing generally where this story is going is making me much more emotional about it all. I keep almost tearing up at the smallest things. I really love Grace as a character. He is so good and so smart. I love all the sciencey stuff. I love sci-fi that uses a lot of real sci which I can compare to my own knowledge bank from astronomy class.

Lighter and more humorous narration than I expected. Although I watched the movie recently and know the general plot, I’m really excited to read the book. Let’s go aroace main character headcanon.