Rocky
This is the name of the alien species Rocky belongs to.
What are Eridians?
This mysterious organism is responsible for the dimming of stars.
What is Astrophage?
Before becoming involved with the mission, Grace worked as this profession.
What is a middle school science teacher?
This scientist recruits Grace to help investigate the Astrophage crisis.
Who is Eva Stratt?
The name of the spacecraft carrying Grace.
What is the Hail Mary?
Rocky communicates primarily using this instead of spoken language.
What are musical tones/sounds?
Astrophage stores enormous amounts of this.
What is energy?
Grace's scientific specialty is this field.
What is microbiology?
Stratt is given extraordinary authority because the world faces this type of crisis.
What is a global extinction/survival crisis?
This type of powered engine allows the Hail Mary to travel interstellar distances.
What is an Astrophage-powered engine?
Rocky has this number of limbs.
What are five limbs?
This star is the destination of the Hail Mary mission because it isn't being affected like other stars.
What is Tau Ceti?
At the beginning of the novel, Grace wakes up with this problem.
What is amnesia/memory loss?
What is the name of the mission designed to save Earth?
What is Project Hail Mary?
Grace spends much of the journey in this state to survive the trip.
What is a medically induced coma?
Despite being from different worlds, Rocky and Grace bond over this
What is their love of science/problem solving?
The discovery of this organism threatens life on Earth because it affects this energy's output.
What is the sun?
When Grace first regains consciousness aboard the Hail Mary, he discovers two crew members dead? Name one of them
Yao/Ilyukhina
What is the biggest consequence if Astrophage continues reducing the Sun's energy?
What is global cooling and mass starvation?
What is the name of Rocky's ship?
What is the Blip-A?
Rocky's environment contains far more of this force than humans are used to.
What is gravity?
The study of Astrophage requires experts in biology and this other field.
What is physics?
Why did Grace leave academia to become a teacher?
What is the controversy surrounding his life-discovery research?