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 49 word-study 46 science 41 chapter-facts 30 character-facts 28 word-usage 20 astronomy 18 physics 14 feature-launch 10 chemistry 10 verbs 9 biology 9 pop-culture 8 movie 8 show more... ryland-grace 7 astrobiology 7 speech 6 astrophage 6 rocky 6 particles 5 trailer 5 contractions 5 punctuation 4 keyness 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 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 characters 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 interactive 1 narrator 1 register 1 vocabulary 1 lego 1

#215 V̶V̶V̶

As we approach the end of the first phase of this website, we thought we’d take a brief look at statistics on the 214 prior beanbags themselves.

By the Numbers

  • 39,649 words total in the main text
  • 185.3 words per beanbag on average
  • 389 book citations referencing 353 unique passages across all chapters
  • 58% include a quote from the book
  • 59% have fine print with methodology notes
  • 21% include charts or visualizations

Longest and Shortest

The longest beanbag was #91 on infrared astronomy.

The shortest beanbag was #1 with initial counts.

Most-Used Tags

text-facts (47), word-study (46), science (41), chapter-facts (30), character-facts (28), word-usage (20), astronomy (18), physics (14)

Common Words

In the main text of beanbags, the most common words were: the (1891), of (1146), in (1021), and (868), a (703), to (591), is (546), times (529), tokens (331), sections (325), are (283), for (282), space (268), that (266), as (264), words (257), with (206), it (203), Grace (200), by (196).

You don’t spend a lot of time looking backward.

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