Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Project Hail Mary is a story about a man rebuilding himself from nothing — a middle school science teacher who wakes alone on an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of who he is or why he's there. As he pieces together what happened, the stakes come into focus: something is causing the sun to die, and he may be humanity's only chance to stop it. The taste it signals is for problem-solving under isolation, ingenuity as the only weapon, and one person carrying an impossible weight far from home.
Project Hail Mary is a 2026 American epic science fiction comedy film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film; Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz, and Lionel Boyce appear in supporting roles. The film follows Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher who awakens aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he got there.
From the Wikipedia article Project_Hail_Mary_(film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Salvation
An extinction-level asteroid and a six-month countdown force unlikely people to confront an unsolvable problem.
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The Silent Sea
A small team on a high-stakes lunar mission uncovers classified secrets buried inside an abandoned facility.
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Goodbye Earth
A teacher becomes the last line of protection for others when a world-ending asteroid cannot be stopped.
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For All Mankind
Space exploration told through the lives of those who dedicate themselves to keeping humanity's reach expanding.
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Please Save My Earth
Characters discover they share strange, inexplicably real dreams of living on the moon as someone else.
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Classroom Crisis
Young students in a space colony navigate a world where humanity's survival depends on pushing into new frontiers.
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Humans Must Answer
A crew of intelligent chickens pilots a spaceship across the solar system while the two scientists aboard bicker.
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Heaven Will Be Mine
After decades fighting an existential threat from beyond the solar system, the mission is declared a failure.
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Return to Grace
A lone explorer uncovers ancient mysteries in a retro sci-fi world that once held answers for all of humanity.
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OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
A robot fulfills a century-old promise by searching the galaxy to find Earth and save what remains of mankind.
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Project Earth (2017)
Scattered laboratories and competing powers circle a secret with world-altering consequences.
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Flashback: The Quest for Identity
A young scientist wakes on a colonised moon with no memory, hunted, and needing to reconstruct who he is.
Book
Project Hail Mary
The source novel: Ryland Grace, sole survivor on a last-chance mission, can't even recall his own name at first.
Book
The memory of whiteness
Civilization scattered across the solar system depends on one physicist's legacy — and something threatens it.
Book
2312
Humanity has spread through the solar system, opening a future of extraordinary possibility and enormous stakes.
Book
Good morning, midnight
An aging scientist alone in the Arctic must act after a catastrophe silences the world around him.
Book
Across Billion Years
A graduate student joins a deep-space expedition hunting artifacts from a civilisation that once ruled the universe.
Book
Swan Song
A single malevolent force moves through a devastated landscape, gathering followers as civilization struggles to endure.
Film
The Hail Mary
A nun cons an angry loner into building a football team for her Catholic school, steering him toward redemption.
Film
The Midnight Sky
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
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Hail Mary
A college student's inexplicable pregnancy ripples outward, affecting people close to her and complete strangers.
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Project Gemini
An international crew ventures into space to save a dying Earth, then finds itself stranded when the plan falls apart.
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Armageddon
With Earth's destruction ticking down, a small crew relies on unconventional expertise to attempt the impossible.
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Free Fall
A lone worker survives a disaster in orbit and must manage isolation and crisis without his crew.
For All Mankind is a strong match — it follows NASA astronauts navigating high-stakes space missions with real scientific grounding. Goodbye Earth also hits similar notes, centering a determined teacher racing to protect others as an extinction-level threat approaches.
Yes — Project Hail Mary (2021) is the Andy Weir novel the film is based on, following Ryland Grace through the same amnesia-on-a-spaceship premise with even more hard-science detail packed into every chapter.
Return to Grace is the closest fit — a first-person narrative sci-fi adventure in a retro-futurist space setting where you uncover a dormant AI and piece together what happened. OPUS: The Day We Found Earth offers a similarly emotional, mission-driven journey through space.