More: All the books becoming movies in 2021, including ‘Things Heard & Seen’ and ‘Without Remorse’ But I did some soul-searching and realized what I really didn’t like about flashbacks is that they interrupt the interesting stuff going on so you can learn boring stuff about a character’s backstory. “They generally feel like your mom calling you in to clean your room when you’re out playing with your friends.
“That was a hard decision for me, because I really don’t like flashbacks,” Weir says. The book runs on two tracks: There’s the interstellar story line in which Ryland uses science and finds an unexpected friend to help him work out the best way to help humanity, and also a backstory that reveals how he went from schoolteacher to unwitting astronaut as well as the biological threat coming from our sun that threatens to bring a devastating new ice age to Earth. “Everyone loves survival stories, regardless of the setting,” Weir tells USA TODAY, which debuts the first excerpt from “Project Hail Mary.” “Whether it be Robinson Crusoe stranded on an island, Mark Watney stranded on Mars, or real-life Chilean miners trapped a mile underground, we all root for people to overcome the obstacles nature throws in their path.” Ryland Grace, the protagonist of Weir’s new novel “Project Hail Mary” (Ballantine Books, out Tuesday), has to figure out how to save all mankind after a trip to a totally different solar system – just as soon as he figures out how he got there in the first place.
Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon in the Oscar-nominated “Martian” movie adaptation, had to figure out how to live on an alien planet when he gets stuck on Mars.
“The Martian” author Andy Weir is sticking another hero in space for an epic survival tale – and this new guy is going a lot farther than the red planet. Watch Video: Mars helicopter flight: NASA Ingenuity makes history
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