ALT A Project Hail Mary illustration. The artwork consists of a 5x7 grid, with smaller illustrations inside the squares. The smaller illustrations include: the xenonite Tau Ceti system; the Hail Mary drawn across three blocks; Grace’s bicycle helmet; Adrian’s green auroras; the Blip-C capsule; the crocheted Earth; the small xenonite figure; Rocky drawn across three blocks; the Petrova Line; the rainbow from Grace’s blanket; the shoreline on Erid; the Taumoeba collector; the green Skittles pack; and Astrophage as seen through a microscope. The squares differ in background colors. There are “empty” squares that reveal Grace on a red-orange background from beneath the small illustrations, only his side profile visible. He’s smiling softly. The overall artwork has an off-white background. The text above the grid reads “PROJECT HAIL MARY” and the text below it reads “LIFE IS REASON.” There are stars at each corner of the artwork.

ALT Illustration of Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary. We see him space walking, suited in his red space suit. From this angle we see him from torso up, as he leans back and glances up at Tau Ceti (a green and orange planet) behind/above him, one of his arms raised up to help counterbalance himself. Tau Ceti sits large and glorious, taking up most of the background. From behind Tau Ceti and coming towards us and under Grace is a ribbon of red, getting larger as it passes under Grace. This is the astrophage. On top left of Tau Ceti on it's horizon the gleam of another star shines over it. There are a bunch of papers surrounding Grace and fluttering along the astrophage line. They contain drawings from his students, motifs found on his quilt, papers he graded from his students and parts of his dissertation.