Science fiction can be huge in scale - but what stayed with me in Project Hail Mary was something much more personal.
What really moved me was not just the space setting or the survival stakes, but the humanity at the center of it all - friendship, fear, emotional acceptance, and the strange comfort of finding connection even across impossible differences.
I wrote my reflection on why Project Hail Mary felt so human to me, and why its emotional core mattered more than the spectacle.