Project Hail Mary

A good, entertaining story, and well written. But some parts, particularly the way that he tells the backstory, felt a little too obvious. Like, here's something this character needs to work on in this scene, and suddenly here's the explanation/backstory. Not a terrible way of doing it, and makes sense for the story, but feels a little clunky. Also, (I say this as a technical person who enjoys reading technical nerd shit) the parts where science and/or engineering happens feel appropriately realistic but dry at times.