Project Hail Mary

Book Playlist

Project Hail Mary Playlist

20 tracks

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Oct 15, 2026

17 mixes for this book

This playlist follows Ryland Grace from disorientation and isolation through painstaking discovery to the unlikely warmth of connection across the stars. The instrumental first half moves between spacious electronic landscapes, patient ambient textures, and propulsive score-like pieces; the vocal half adds songs about space, scientific wonder, sacrifice, and finding companionship far from home.

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Track List

20 songs

1

1/1

Brian Eno · Eno/Wyatt/Davies: Music for Airports

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2

Silk Road

Kitaro · Super Best

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3

God Moving Over the Face of the Waters

Moby · Everything Is Wrong

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4

Home

Disasterpeace · FEZ (Original Game Soundtrack)

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5

Acid Rain

Lorn · The Maze To Nowhere

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6

Photosynthesis

Carbon Based Lifeforms · World of Sleepers

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7

Being Here

Laraaji · Flow Goes The Universe

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8

Turn Away and Return

Hammock · Everything and Nothing

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9

The Birth and Death of the Day

Explosions In The Sky · All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

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10

Kobresia

Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

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11

Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares

Tangerine Dream · The Very Best

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12

The Gravel Road (from "The Village")

James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4

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13

Space Oddity - 2015 Remaster

David Bowie · David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) [2015 Remaster]

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14

Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)

Elton John · Honky Chateau

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15

Major Tom (Coming Home)

Peter Schilling · Fehler Im System

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16

Starlight

Muse · Black Holes and Revelations

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17

Subterranean Homesick Alien

Radiohead · OK Computer

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18

Walking On The Moon

The Police · Reggatta De Blanc (Remastered 2003)

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19

'39

Queen · A Night At The Opera (Deluxe Edition)

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20

Do You Realize??

The Flaming Lips · Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

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