Book Log 2021 #59: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

A man wakes up on a space ship, not knowing his name, why he's on the ship, or where he's going. All he knows is that he's awake, and the two people who were his crewmates are now dead. He's alone and an untold number of miles from Earth.

Thankfully, his amnesia begins to fade, and he begins to remember that he's on a one-way mission to learn how to fight off a microbe that is causing stars to dim, which will plunge the Earth into an exinction-level ice age. He has to use his skills as a molecular biologist to find a solution, while avoiding all of the novel ways space can kill you.

This book is solidly in the theme of The Martian and Artemis, where an ordinary person facing likely death uses science and unexpeected resolve to achieve the extraordinary. And like those books, the way this unfolds is highly entertaining.