Ell commented on Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity …
Content warning big late plot spoilers, profanity, predictions
Oh damn!! Unexpected 11th-hour crisis! Quite literally, in fact, if this book was twelve hours long it would be 11:16 right now.
Sitting outside the coffee shop and literally said out loud "you bastard, you're gonna go save Rocky aren't you?"
So there's my call: the magnificent big-hearted cowardly astronaut jettisons the meticulously-reconstructed beetles to earth, and then ends up on a new suicide mission to save Rocky. With 50 of my 900 ebook pages to do it???
Side bet: I'm 50/50 on if he and Rocky find some new miraculous way to still get him home.
Maybe he just signals with Checkov's Morse Code, and Rocky sees it because he's also missing his buddy...but for arc and character development, re-engaging the suicide mission seems more likely.