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This website contains spoilers for Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.
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text-facts 47 word-study 44 science 40 chapter-facts 30 character-facts 28 word-usage 20 astronomy 18 physics 14 feature-launch 10 chemistry 10 verbs 9 biology 8 pop-culture 7 ryland-grace 7 show more... astrobiology 7 astrophage 6 rocky 6 movie 6 particles 5 speech 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 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 characters 1 interactive 1 narrator 1 register 1

text-facts

#1

Overall counts of chapters, paragraphs, sentences, and tokens

#7

There are 10,402 unique words in Project Hail Mary.

#12

Across its 30 chapters, Project Hail Mary is further divided into 116 sections.

#15

The top ten most common words in the novel

#17

Of the 116 sections in the book, 30 take place on Earth and 86 in Space.

#22

The definite article “the” occurs 8,131 times in Project Hail Mary

#24

There are 813,911 Unicode characters in the novel.

#28

Statistics on the number of speakers and amount of speech in each timeline.

#30

Counts and distribution of various punctuation marks across the novel

#33

The top 20 adjectival modifiers in Project Hail Mary

#37

On three occasions, Grace utters a statement of the form: I’m a X, not (a) Y.

#42

Verb tense in Project Hail Mary varies dramatically between the Earth and Space sections

#43

Here we explore the sections that are outliers regarding verb tense

#49

The degree symbol is used 12 times in the novel to mean either temperature or angle.

#55

There are 1,297 hyphens in Project Hail Mary

#61

How is ”human” used to modify other nouns?

#66

There are 3 occasions where Rocky makes a statement of the form “Human are...” and 22 occasions where he makes a statement of the form ”You are...”

#71

What is the distribution of word length across Project Hail Mary?

#73

What is the distribution of paragraph length across Project Hail Mary?

#78

How many different musical symbol sequences are there in Project Hail Mary?

#83

What are the Chinese and Russian words in Project Hail Mary?

#88

Examples of single-quoted phrases in Project Hail Mary

#94

In this beanbag, we look at the first few categories of contractions in Project Hail Mary

#100

In this beanbag, we look at similes in Project Hail Mary

#103

Examples of double-quoted phrases in the first six chapters of Project Hail Mary

#106

In this beanbag, we look at the most common words for each part-of-speech.

#114

In this beanbag, we look contractions of not in Project Hail Mary

#118

In this beanbag, we look contractions of auxiliaries in Project Hail Mary

#123

In this beanbag, we look apostrophe-s in Project Hail Mary

#127

The top occurring possessive nouns in Project Hail Mary

#131

What verbs follow let’s in Project Hail Mary

#134

In this beanbag, we look at not contractions by speaker

#137

The number of distinct speakers in each chapter of Project Hail Mary

#140

Whose speech is the most unusual in terms of proportion of different parts-of-speech

#144

What parts-of-speech are unusually frequent or infrequent for certain speakers.

#147

Percentage of first person pronouns in the Space timeline that are plural

#153

The percentage of tokens in each chapter that are in direct speech

#159

A visualization of the relative frequency of nouns across Project Hail Mary

#163

A visualization of the relative frequency of verbs across Project Hail Mary

#166

A visualization of the relative frequency of adjectives across Project Hail Mary

#168

A visualization of the relative frequency of determiners across Project Hail Mary

#171

A visualization of the relative frequency of prepositions across Project Hail Mary

#174

A visualization of the relative frequency of coordinating conjunctions across Project Hail Mary

#178

A visualization of the relative frequency of subordinating conjunctions across Project Hail Mary

#183

A breakdown of punctuation marks in direct speech for the top 10 characters

#190

Weir uses combinations of punctuation marks 77 times in Project Hail Mary

#204

Interactive character network showing who shares sections with whom in Project Hail Mary