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Project Hail Mary Audiobook by Andy Weir— narrated by Ray Porter
2022 Audie Award · Audiobook of the Year
Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary wakes a man on a spaceship with no memory, no living crew, and a job that decides whether humanity survives. It's hard SF built as a survival puzzle, an amnesia story used as a working engine rather than a hook, and it's warm in ways the genre rarely manages.
Why the audiobook wins
Project Hail Mary is the rare audiobook that outperforms the page. Rocky, the alien engineer everyone leaves this story loving, speaks in musical chords, and narrator Ray Porter performs them as actual sound, chimes and all. A few hours in, your brain starts parsing the music as language, and first contact happens inside your head. It's why this recording won Audiobook of the Year at the 2022 Audies and became a fixture of best-audiobook-ever lists.
If the movie brought you here, you've met these characters at highlight-reel speed. The film runs two hours; Porter's recording runs sixteen, and the difference is story, not padding: the months Grace and Rocky spend learning to talk to each other, the survival math of a dwindling food supply, the slow dread of a cooling Earth, and at least one disaster the film never shows.
Even the people who made the movie defer to this recording. Ryan Gosling called Porter's performance "a hard act to follow," and Andy Weir's verdict on his narrator was simply: "Ray nailed it." Sixteen hours in his company go fast, and one Audible credit covers all of them.
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- Who narrates the Project Hail Mary audiobook?
- Ray Porter narrates the audiobook edition of Project Hail Mary.
- How long is the Project Hail Mary audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 16 hr 10 min.
- Is the Project Hail Mary audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored Project Hail Mary 4.6 out of 5. Project Hail Mary is the rare audiobook that outperforms the page. Rocky, the alien engineer everyone leaves this story loving, speaks in musical chords, and narrator Ray Porter performs them as actual sound, chimes and all. A few hours in, your brain starts parsing the music as…
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