Red Szell

You just felt completely and utterly in sync with the timing of what was going on.

I initially had a little bit of a problem with the way it jump cut back to life on Earth and the planning of Project Hail Mary until I realised that actually...

Part of the reason it felt uncomfortable is because you were meant to feel the discomfort of Ryland dredging up memories that he couldn't quite get a hold of.

It's him recalling his memories.

Yeah.

And again, that was subtle.

That was clever.

And I...

It's not always good to have everything served up, meat and potatoes in front of you and just go, oh yeah, I know exactly what this book is trying to do.

I quite like it when you can feel that the production team

is trying to mess with your head in the same way that your head would be messed with if you were reading the book visually.

So, yeah, no, I thought it was a very, very good piece of audio production.

And, yeah, I'd like to read more of that production team's work.

work.

They clearly know exactly what they're doing.

It was an Audible original, was it?

It's not impossible, and I think that's it.

If I were to write a science fiction story as somebody who really struggled with science and maths at school, I would be writing soft science fiction.

And the science fiction by people like Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke

that was around when I was a teenager, really put me off.