I've heard it said that you could have taken the hero of Weir's The Martian and put him in this same situation. Other than them people who had to use science and the material around them to survive, there really isn't a lot of similarity. The protagonist in the first novel being a trained astronaut, who had prepared for his mission ahead of time, and this book's Ryland Grace being a Jr. High school science teacher. Although Grace had initially been a scientist, whose theories brought him ridicule.
When it is discovered that a substance soon to be dubbed 'Astrophage' is slowly absorbing the Sun, Grace is basically drafted in a world-wide effort to find a way to stop it. As the climate of Earth, is drastically pushed into a greater crisis than it already faces, a plan is put together to send a small group of trained astronaut/scientists to a distant star to see if a cure can be found there. When something unplanned for occurs, Grace finds himself part of that crew headed on a one-way mission.
This is a solid 5 out of 5 stars from me. I'm almost afraid of what Hollywood will do when we get the inevitable adaptation. I hope at least they put onto streaming as a limited series and not cram it into a two-hour film.
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