The Distance Between Skies AU

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• The Distance Between Skies by JM1911A1

  Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  12 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace
  • Ava & The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • Ryland Grace & Eva Stratt
  • Ryland Grace & Rocky
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace & Rocky
  • Adrian (Project Hail Mary) & The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace & Rocky
  • Adrian/Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
  • The Convict | Simon & David (Iron Lung)
  • Ryland Grace & Jack (Iron Lung)
  • Adrian & Ryland Grace & Rocky
  • Ryland Grace & The Hail Mary Computer | Mary
  • The Convict | Simon & Jack (Iron Lung)
  • Ryland Grace
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • Ava (Iron Lung)
  • Eva Stratt
  • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
  • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
  • Jack (Iron Lung)
  • David (Iron Lung)
  • Original Eridian Characters (Project Hail Mary)
  • Ryland Grace's Eridian Students
  • The Blood Eel (Iron Lung)
  • Original Children of Adrian and Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
  • The Father (Iron Lung)
  • POV Ryland Grace
  • POV The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • The Convict | Simon Needs a Hug (Iron Lung)
  • Ryland Grace Needs a Hug
  • Ryland Grace & Rocky are Best Friends
  • Mutated The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • Ryland Grace is on the Asexuality Spectrum
  • The Convict | Simon Has Trust Issues (Iron Lung)
  • The Convict | Simon Has Religious Trauma (Iron Lung)
  • The Convict | Simon Has PTSD (Iron Lung)
  • The Convict | Simon Has Anger Issues (Iron Lung)
  • Bisexual The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • Actually more like Bisexual But Never Genuinely Thought About Any Of That What The F- The World Is A Disaster The Convict | Simon
  • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
  • Honestly everyone in Iron Lung is 180 Degress of Screwed Up
  • Slow Burn
  • the slowest burn known to man
  • Glaciers melt quicker than this
  • Spoilers for Iron Lung (2026)
  • They/Them Pronouns for Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
  • He/Him Pronouns for Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
  • Project Hail Mary Spoilers
  • Quote: You just need to find someone to be brave for (Project Hail Mary 2026)
  • Quote: I just wanna live. Is that so wrong? Why doesn't anybody else want that? (Iron Lung 2026)
  • Author Has Watched Iron Lung (2026)
  • The Convict | Simon Has a Bad Time (Iron Lung)
  • POV Ava (Iron Lung)
  • Mature for violence
  • Mature for Genre Appropriate Horror
  • Mature for Genre Appropriate Concerns
  • No Smut
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • I promise comfort eventually
  • Author Has Watched Project Hail Mary (2026)
  • Author Has Read Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
  • Let Rocky Say Fuck (Project Hail Mary)

  Summary

  <WHAT ARE THESE?>
  <WHAT ARE WHAT?>
  <THE DISGUSTING SKELETON CREATURES BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THAT CLEARLY ALIVE AND MOVING GIANT FANGED SEA MONSTER?>
  <WELL THE FUCKED UP SKELETON IS MY JOB>
  <WHAT KIND OF JOB INVOLVES A GIANT BLOB-FISH-EEL-SKELETON?>
  <THE KIND YOU DONT GET A FUCKING SAY IN>

  Ryland Grace has already saved humanity once.
  Simon has spent most of his life trying to survive what was left of it.

  Separated by improbable distance, impossible timelines, and a computer terminal that should never have been able to connect them, two men who know far too much about sacrifice find themselves sharing research, terrible jokes, increasingly personal conversations, and a problem neither universe should still be alive to have.

  Because somewhere between a dying reality, a blood ocean, and a mission three hundred years in the making, something is trying very hard to close the distance between worlds.

  Unfortunately for the universe, both Ryland Grace and Simon have always had a problem with sacrifices...

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Distance Between Skies AU

  Language:

  English

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