Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

We're your fan and writer hosts. I'm Blue Gal.

And I'm Drift Glass, and you can visit Science Fiction University at our website,

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And warning, this episode contains spoilers for Andy Weir's 2021 novel Project Hail Mary,

Ridley Scott's 2015 adaptation of Andy Weir's 2011 novel, The Martian, Robert L. Forward's

1980 novel, Dragon's Egg, the Star Trek canon, broadly speaking, and probably some early

Heinlein and Spider-Robinson. So you have been warned.

Now, over the holiday weekend, we finished up the audiobook of Andy Weir's 2021 novel Project Ale Mary, as read by Ray Porter.

And then we looked at each other and went, you know what, this is science fiction university this week. Let's do it.

Yeah, we were in the car like, okay, that's clearly it. This is, this is what we're doing

because we really enjoyed it. But, but first, some important background information about your

host, Blue Gal, are we book reviewers? No, we're not. No. Last time I checked, no. Then why do we do

this if we're not book reviewers, Blue Gal? Well, because we're fans, Drift Glass.

That's right.

We're science fiction nerds from way back.

I know that's why you love me.

Well, many, many reasons, one of which, yes, in the top 17 reasons.

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