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This website contains spoilers for Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.
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text-facts 37 word-study 35 science 27 chapter-facts 25 character-facts 24 word-usage 18 astronomy 12 physics 11 chemistry 8 feature-launch 6 astrophage 6 verbs 6 particles 5 speech 5 show more... astrobiology 5 contractions 5 pop-culture 4 rocky 4 spectroscopy 3 ryland-grace 3 sections 3 exoplanets 3 trailer 3 petrova-line 2 eridian-numbers 2 star-trek 2 40-eridani 2 venus 2 eva-stratt 2 punctuation 2 atmosphere 2 nouns 2 tau-ceti 2 astronauts 2 quotes 2 biology 2 martin-dubois 2 jwst 1 gravity 1 determiners 1 marissa 1 unicode 1 grace-kids 1 adjectives 1 sandra-elias 1 dr-browne 1 prepositions 1 minister-voigt 1 ms-xi 1 dimitri-komorov 1 justice-spencer 1 ursula-k-le-guin 1 dr-lokken 1 music 1 bob-redell 1 chinese 1 russian 1 beatles 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 climate 1 geography 1 steve-hatch 1 pronouns 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