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[Results] Book of the Month (August 2023)
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Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
We had a pretty good turnout for our first book of the month vote. To be honest I did not anticipate the problem of there being a tie. I took the liberty of flipping a coin which came out heads for Project Hail Mary. In the future I might have to come up with a better method of tie breaking. I'm figuring this out as I go and it is all just for the fun of it anyway so please don't take this too seriously.
I intend to read this book over the month of September and then near the end of the month I will create a discussion thread for it where people can discuss it without worrying about spoilers. Follow along if you want to.
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- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - 20 votes
- Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 20 votes
- Neuromancer - William Gibson - 17 votes
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons - 13 votes
- Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey - 13 votes
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine - 11 votes
- Wool (Silo Series Book 1) - Hugh Howey - 10 votes
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown - 4 votes
- 22/11/63 - Stephen King - 1 vote
Ok so as soon as I saw that the book was called Hail Mary, I was said to myself "OK so there will be a main character called Grace or something"
My buddy (fairly religious guy) read the whole book without noticing that same pun. He's usually the one who points this kind of joke out to oblivious me.
It's such a "I started with this joke and worked backwards" kind of great name lol.
Is the joke that both are a type of prayer?
The Hail Mary prayer in catholicism begins "Hail Mary, full of grace, ..."