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

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Project Amaze!

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

text-facts 43 word-study 38 science 31 chapter-facts 28 character-facts 28 word-usage 20 astronomy 13 physics 11 chemistry 10 verbs 9 astrobiology 7 feature-launch 6 astrophage 6 pop-culture 5 show more... particles 5 speech 5 rocky 5 contractions 5 ryland-grace 4 biology 4 spectroscopy 3 sections 3 eva-stratt 3 exoplanets 3 atmosphere 3 nouns 3 dr-lokken 3 astronauts 3 trailer 3 petrova-line 2 eridian-numbers 2 star-trek 2 40-eridani 2 venus 2 determiners 2 punctuation 2 adjectives 2 prepositions 2 dimitri-komorov 2 tau-ceti 2 beatles 2 quotes 2 martin-dubois 2 climate 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 conjunctions 1

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Here’s a visualization of the relative frequency of coordinating conjunctions across all sections and chapters of the book.

This is primarily and (3,035 times), but (1,211 times), and or (339 times). We’ll do a breakdown of these three in a future beanbag.

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Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).

The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.

The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that are tagged as CCONJ (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).

Part-of-speech tagging was done with spaCy. The tagging uses Universal POS tags.