You and Betty and the nancy's and bills and joes and james will find in the study of science a richer, more rewarding life.

Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas. This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.

There's more than what we see.

Well, we have another special episode for you featuring Adam Bristol.

Hey, and Dry. It's good to be here again.

And one of our favorite authors, someone we've heard on the podcast before, Andy Weir.

Yeah, Andy Weir, I think one of the best active science fiction writers, known to many as the author of a novel called The Martian, which then became a blockbuster film with Matt Damon. He also wrote a novel called

Artemis and numerous short stories. And he's out with a new one called Project Hail Mary.

So I got to chat with the Andy Weir, which is awesome, super fun, super interesting guy. We got to talk

about really a lot of the nitty gritty of the book and really what went into it.

It's quite an expansive book. It goes beyond, you know, a single planet or a single moon base.

I haven't read the book yet. I'm super excited to read it, knowing how much you liked it.

I mean, I saw multiple times where you stayed up well past your bedtime. Painful that I can't

talk to you about the book. Reading this book. Yeah, you gave up your sleep for it.

But critical to not talk to you about the book, because as you'll learn in the interview, there's so many ups and downs and twists and turns and unexpected plot changes that you really don't want spoilers.

And so this interview actually gets cut in half because I admonish our listeners.

Spoiler alerts coming now.

Turn off the podcast.

Go read the book.

Come back later.

Because after that point, Andy and I decide, okay, let's really get down to brass tacks

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