India, May 5 -- The publication of Andy Weir's PROJECT HAIL MARY by Ballantine Books on Tuesday, May 4, has been celebrated with a wide-ranging profile in The New York Times, an interview on CBS Saturday Morning, and an exclusive book excerpt in USA Today. Andy Weir shares, "I'm so excited for PROJECT HAIL MARY to be hitting the shelves. In part, it's definitely a return to MARTIAN territory for me, but I also took some big swings with the story, and I'm pretty sure readers will be surprised to see where it goes-pleasantly so, I hope! And there's one particular character I really can't wait for everyone to meet."PROJECT HAIL MARY is an interstellar adventure of discovery, speculation, and survival -while taking readers to places we never ...