Author Andy Weir affords 'Venture Hail Mary' mission patch on digital book tour

“The Martian” creator Andy Weir’s contemporary book, “Venture Hail Mary,” is coming May possibly well presumably presumably 4, 2021 from Ballantine Books.
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Andy Weir is energetic to launch his subsequent situation adventure and has a mission patch looking ahead to you whenever you happen to retract out to hitch him.

The creator of the 2014 bestseller “The Martian,” which changed into adapted into the hit Ridley Scott feature film starring Matt Damon, is now again with but another account of discovery, hypothesis and survival in “Venture Hail Mary,” coming from Ballantine Books on May possibly well presumably presumably 4.

To promote the upcoming free up, Weir will retract share in a six-“stop” digital book tour, partnering with book stores and museums at some level of the nation to fragment “Venture Hail Mary” with their patrons. The critical 400 of us to register for each and each tournament will receive a signed reproduction of “Venture Hail Mary” and a bonus perfect out of the book.

The first 400 people who register for each of the events on Andy Weir's — The critical 400 of us that register for each and each of the occasions on Andy Weir’s “Venture Hail Mary” digital book tour will earn an embroidered Venture Hail Mary mission patch. (Image credit: Ballantine Books)

As “Venture Hail Mary” opens, readers are launched to Ryland Grace, who has woke as much as gather himself on a spaceship and absent of all his memories. As he explores the ship to learn more about the mission he is on, Grace comes at some level of a visible clue.

“I acquaint myself with the million assorted monitors within the little room. Most of them bask in something to reveal, but regarded as one of them true exhibits an issue of a spherical crest. I mediate it be doubtlessly an lazy conceal or something. If I contact it, that computer will earn up. However that lazy conceal may possibly presumably be the most informative component in right here.

“It be a mission crest. I’ve considered enough NASA documentaries to grab one when I search for one. The spherical crest has an outer ring of blue with white text. The text reads HAIL MARY at some level of the tip and EARTH at some level of the underside. The establish and ‘port of name’ for this vessel.

“I did not mediate the ship came from someplace assorted than Earth, but okay. Anyway, I notify I at final know the establish of this ship I’m on.

“I’m aboard the Hail Mary.”

Excerpt from PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir, copyright 2021 © by Andy Weir. Mature by permission of Ballantine Books, an designate of Random Home, a division of Penguin Random Home. No share of this excerpt may possibly presumably also presumably be reproduced or reprinted with out permission in writing from the writer.

The the same mission crest, made true as an embroidered patch, will reach with each and each signed reproduction of “Venture Hail Mary.”

As announced on Thursday (March 4) by Ballatine, the “Venture Hail Mary” digital book tour will encompass the next occasions:

May possibly well presumably presumably 4 with Mysterious Galaxy in partnership with Rapidly Science Middle in San Diego, California
May possibly well presumably presumably 6 with Barnes & Noble
May possibly well presumably presumably 10 with Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
May possibly well presumably presumably 11 with Third Situation Books in Seattle, Washington
May possibly well presumably presumably 12 with Neighborhood Guide shop in Brooklyn, Modern York
May possibly well presumably presumably 13 with Situation Middle Houston in Houston, Texas

Author Andy Weir, seen here during a 2018 NASA podcast taping, will go on a virtual book tour for — Author Andy Weir, considered right here all thru a 2018 NASA podcast taping, will journey on a digital book tour for “Venture Hail Mary.” (Image credit: NASA)

More records about each and each digital tour stop, including worth costs and guidelines on how to participate shall be on hand from each and each tournament host and from Weir’s net position.

Whereas the Venture Hail Mary mission patch is customized from the book, the construct may possibly presumably also sometime also seem in a future movie starring Ryan Gosling (“First Man,” “Blade Runner 2049”). MGM obtained the rights to the book for the actor and has introduced aboard Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“The Lego Movie”) to negate.

“Venture Hail Mary” is Weir’s third book. After “The Martian,” he wrote the 2017 advance-future lunar colony caper “Artemis,” which changed into optioned by 20th Century Fox and Modern Regency to change into a movie with Lord and Miller also connected to negate.

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