The Chinese come to the rescue of NASA and the movie literally concludes with one of the American heroes fist-bumping a Chinese astronaut on a joint mission back to Mars. It's a sad reminder of how bad the new cold war has become in just a few years.
2015: :wholesome: We can explore space together! :solidarity:
2022: President Xi is going to invade Taiwan at any moment LAUNCH THE NUKES NOW! :guts-rage:
:sadness:
I get that; I was cringing more than once. But if you can tolerate that: the book is still very fun IMO.
i could not tolerate it, i really loved the martian and even enjoyed artemis well enough but project hail mary just seemed to be a distillation of all the worst parts of the author's previous works
Yeah it's really an author self insert of smart science man who does smart science things.