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227 points jxmorris12 | 6 comments | 31 Mar 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.357s | source | bottom
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xutopia ◴[31 Mar 25 13:09 UTC] No.43534641[source]▶
I can't recommend this author enough. Project Hail Mary and The Martian are amazing works of science fiction. Project Hail Mary is actually amazing as an audiobook.
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maxhille ◴[31 Mar 25 13:25 UTC] No.43534793[source]▶
Funny coincidence - I just finished the Project Hail Mary audiobook this morning and loved it.

Any recommendations for the next audiobook?

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1. dmcc365 ◴[31 Mar 25 13:54 UTC] No.43535099[source]▶
Mickey7 is pretty good if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Alternatively, the Murderbot series.
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2. chrismatheson ◴[31 Mar 25 14:14 UTC] No.43535298[source]▶
I can 2nd the murderbot series.

Also there bobiverse series is great IMHO

3. thoughtpalette ◴[31 Mar 25 14:37 UTC] No.43535573[source]▶
Just finished Mickey7, lot's of fun. I gotta see the movie now.

LOVE the Murderbot series, highly recommend.

4. dmayle ◴[31 Mar 25 14:59 UTC] No.43535806[source]▶
On the vein of similar books, in the late 80s, early 90's a read a science fiction anthology that had more or less the same exact story as Mickey7.

Humans discover a place (I think on Mars), built by Aliens, but it's a deathtrap. So they send someone in to navigate the deathtrap using a clone, and a sort of remote control (something like Avatar).

Each time the clone dies, the person piloting it survives, but has gained the memory of what went wrong, and can try again (kind of like Edge of Tomorrow).

The point of the story is the very end, when the pilot makes it fully through the space.

Has anoyone every heard of this storay and know the name/author? (Bonus points of you know the anthology as well)

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5. dmayle ◴[31 Mar 25 15:17 UTC] No.43536021[source]▶
I answered my own question! It's called Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budry, and was in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two
6. tstrimple ◴[31 Mar 25 22:09 UTC] No.43540506[source]▶
The main thing keeping me from the murderbot series is the value prop. They are incredibly short which doesn’t play as well with a credit based purchasing system. For seven credits I get a little over 20 hours of content. Project Hail Mary is 16 hours for one credit.