#181 V̶ℓI
The word “space” occurs 132 times in Project Hail Mary, in every chapter except 10, 12, 20, and 28.
It occurs 33 times in Earth sections: the narrator (19 times), Grace in direct speech (7 times), Dr. Lokken (2 times), Bob Redell (1 time), Steve Hatch (1 time), and Stratt (1 time).
It occurs 99 times in Space sections: the narrator (82 times), Grace in direct speech (10 times), and Rocky (7 times).
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies across all sections and chapters of the book.
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 match “space” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
How do I know all that space stuff?
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