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The Egg (2009)

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227 points jxmorris12 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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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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jpm_sd ◴[31 Mar 25 13:41 UTC] No.43534953[source]▶
I enjoyed The Martian (novel and movie) but I didn't care for Artemis or Project Hail Mary. I thought the characters and dialogue were fairly weak, even though the underlying ideas were clever. Also I thought that "main character amnesia" was a frustrating plot device (in PHM).

Overall, his authorial voice reminds me a lot of YouTube hosts? Perhaps that's just the cultural moment we're in.

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1. psadauskas ◴[31 Mar 25 15:01 UTC] No.43535833[source]▶
I like his concepts, and his stories, but agree about the characters. Every single one of them talks like a snarky sarcastic white dude. All the side characters in The Martian, the teenage girl in Artemis, and the rock alien in Project Hail Mary, all speak in the same voice, that of a jokey middle-aged dad.