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Project Hail Mary, the Glossary

Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir.^[1]

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2021 science fiction novels
Fiction set around Tau Ceti
Novels about NASA
Science fiction about first contact
Works by Andy Weir

Adrian Pennino

Adrianna Pennino-Balboa is a fictional character from the Rocky series, played by Talia Shire.

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Alec Nevala-Lee

Alec Nevala-Lee (born May 31, 1980) is an American biographer, novelist, and science fiction writer.

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Amazon MGM Studios

Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon launched in 2010.

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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind.

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Amy Pascal

Amy Pascal (born March 25, 1958) is an American film producer and business executive.

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Andy Weir

Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Artemis (novel)

Artemis is a 2017 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. Project Hail Mary and Artemis (novel) are works by Andy Weir.

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Artificial gravity

Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation.

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An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον, meaning 'star', and ναύτης, meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year

The Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA).

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Audie Award for Science Fiction

The Audie Award for Science Fiction is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA).

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Audio Publishers Association

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) is the first and only not-for-profit trade organization of the audiobook industry in the United States.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.

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Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher that is a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.

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Burn

A burn is an injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ultraviolet radiation (such as sunburn).

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Checklist

A checklist is a type of job aid used in repetitive tasks to reduce failure by compensating for potential limits of human memory and attention.

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Coma

A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Disease outbreak

In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season.

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Dragon Con

Dragon Con (previously Dragon*Con and sometimes DragonCon) is a North American multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place annually over the Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Drew Goddard

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Ebook

An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Electromagnetic radiation

In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) consists of waves of the electromagnetic (EM) field, which propagate through space and carry momentum and electromagnetic radiant energy.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.

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Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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First contact is a common theme in science fiction about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient species' first encounter with another one, given they are from different planets or natural satellites. Project Hail Mary and first contact (science fiction) are science fiction about first contact.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Fuselage

The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.

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Global cooling

Global cooling was a conjecture, especially during the 1970s, of imminent cooling of the Earth culminating in a period of extensive glaciation, due to the cooling effects of aerosols or orbital forcing.

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Global dimming

Global dimming is a decline in the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

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Goodreads

Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews.

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Goodreads Choice Awards

The Goodreads Choice Awards is a yearly award program, first launched on Goodreads in 2009.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Health threat from cosmic rays

Health threats from cosmic rays are the dangers posed by cosmic rays to astronauts on interplanetary missions or any missions that venture through the Van-Allen Belts or outside the Earth's magnetosphere.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year.

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Ice age

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Interstellar travel

Interstellar travel is the hypothetical travel of spacecraft from one star system, solitary star, or planetary system to another.

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Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus.

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Legal immunity

Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order to facilitate societal aims that outweigh the value of imposing liability in such cases.

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Light-year

A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (Scientific notation: 9.4607304725808 × 1012 km), which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal (born February 8, 1969) is an American author, translator, art director, and puppeteer.

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Mass–energy equivalence

In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the relationship between mass and energy in a system's rest frame, where the two quantities differ only by a multiplicative constant and the units of measurement.

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Methane

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Microorganism

A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

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Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions.

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Near future in fiction

The near future has been used as a setting in many works, usually but not limited to the genre of science fiction.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Orbital decay

Orbital decay is a gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods.

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) and Christopher Robert Miller (born September 23, 1975) are American filmmakers.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Psychological and sociological effects of spaceflight

Psychological and sociological effects of space flight are important to understanding how to successfully achieve the goals of long-duration expeditionary missions.

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Radiant energy

In physics, and in particular as measured by radiometry, radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation.

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Ray Porter

Ray Porter is an American actor and audiobook narrator who is most widely known for portraying the DC Comics villain Darkseid in Zack Snyder's Justice League.

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Retrograde amnesia

In neurology, retrograde amnesia (RA) is the inability to access memories or information from before an injury or disease occurred.

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Rocket propellant

Rocket propellant is the reaction mass of a rocket.

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Rocky Balboa

Robert "Rocky" Balboa (born June 6, 1945) (also known by his ring name the Italian Stallion) is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the ''Rocky'' film series.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Ryan Gosling

Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor.

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Sandra Hüller

Sandra Hüller (born 30 April 1978) is a German actress.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, commonly known as SFWA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.

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Seiun Award

The is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements during the previous calendar year.

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Selective breeding

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary

Also known as Astrophage, Eva Stratt, Project Hail Mary (novel), Ryland Grace, Taumoeba, Xenonite.

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See also

2021 science fiction novels

Fiction set around Tau Ceti

Novels about NASA

Science fiction about first contact

Works by Andy Weir

References