WARNING!

This website contains spoilers for Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.
It is recommended you read the book before exploring this site.

“Get comfortable. I have a lot of science to explain.”
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Project Amaze!

Textual and scientific analysis of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

text-facts 46 word-study 44 science 38 chapter-facts 30 character-facts 28 word-usage 20 astronomy 17 physics 13 chemistry 10 feature-launch 9 verbs 9 pop-culture 7 astrobiology 7 biology 7 show more... ryland-grace 6 astrophage 6 rocky 6 movie 6 particles 5 speech 5 trailer 5 contractions 5 punctuation 4 spectroscopy 3 star-trek 3 sections 3 eva-stratt 3 exoplanets 3 atmosphere 3 nouns 3 tau-ceti 3 dr-lokken 3 astronauts 3 keyness 3 petrova-line 2 eridian-numbers 2 40-eridani 2 venus 2 determiners 2 adjectives 2 prepositions 2 dimitri-komorov 2 beatles 2 quotes 2 martin-dubois 2 climate 2 conjunctions 2 jwst 1 gravity 1 marissa 1 unicode 1 grace-kids 1 sandra-elias 1 dr-browne 1 minister-voigt 1 ms-xi 1 justice-spencer 1 ursula-k-le-guin 1 music 1 bob-redell 1 chinese 1 russian 1 ryan-gosling 1 similes 1 easton 1 francois-leclerc 1 invented-words 1 dr-lamai 1 psychology 1 annie-shapiro 1 possessives 1 olesya-ilyukhina 1 yao-li-jie 1 antarctica 1 geography 1 steve-hatch 1 pronouns 1 genetics 1 deep-space-network 1 hapax 1

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The fifth of six major features of the site has now been launched, the Glossary.

For any word occurring in Project Hail Mary, there is a dashboard which includes:

  • a visualization of where in the text the word occurs and how frequently
  • how many sections and chapters the word appears in
  • the first occurrence of the word
  • how many times the word appears in Space sections vs Earth sections
  • the lemma, or dictionary form
  • related forms of the same lemma
  • counts by speaker and by chapter
  • parts of speech and syntactic roles
  • key and distinctive collocates
  • the most common heads and dependents

Analysis was performed using spaCy with corrections being made as we find errors. Speaker identification was done manually.