It's Scifi. It's Romance. It's Fantasy.

It's SciMANtasy 😱

Let's see if we can make Gary an Amazon bestseller so he doesn't ask for his money back.

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The Last Sysadmin in Sector 7 : a SCIMANTASY novel

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The Ultimate Male Pattern Fantasy

​What if the greatest science fiction dream isn't discovering alien life or saving the human race, but simply being left completely alone in a room to do math?

​Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary is a masterpiece of hard sci-fi engineering, but beneath the astrophage and the orbital mechanics lies a deeply comforting psychological trope. We are looking at the "Male Pattern Fantasy"—the idea that the ultimate hero is just an ordinary, highly competent guy who solves the universe's problems in absolute, blissful isolation (and somehow looks exactly like Ryan Gosling while doing it).

​Whether you find this trope to be a lovely, optimistic vision of human competence or a pathetic retreat from social reality, it is currently dominating modern science fiction.