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    Ryland Grace has been kidnapped. They get him back, of course, but Eva is not about to take any further chances.

    AKA ryland grace realizes that he’s mission critical in the worst possible way NOW WITH DOODLES !!

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    11 Aug 2026

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    Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.

    When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.

    But most of all, Tim is alone.

    (If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)

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    10 Aug 2026

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    Ryland Grace, the only known sentient alien species Earth had ever encountered, is shot into space to help resolve the Astrophage problem.

    For four lonely years, he waits for his crew to wake up so that their home, whether by birth or adoption, is saved.

    None of them expect the ship orbiting Tau Ceti.

    Or its crew.

    (Earth already knew they weren't alone out there in the world. They just didn't know the details.)

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    09 Aug 2026

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    Rocky didn't mention the asteroid belt surrounding Erid's Solar System. After a meteor collides with the Mary, Rocky suffers a fall and is out for the count. Grace knows very little Eridian, but by God, he's gonna get his friend some help.

    It's just too bad the Eridians think they're talking to a pebble.

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    "Have fi-x," he whistled. "Life eat. Hurt bad."

    Oh, God, this was not gonna work. Not one bit.

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    09 Aug 2026

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    Three years after the probes carrying Taumoeba and Dr. Ryland Grace's final message arrive on Earth, humanity launches an interstellar spaceship with a brand new mission. Thirty-six crew members (including two graduates of a certain San Franciscan junior high school) travel to the star 40-Eridani to make friendly contact with the Eridians and bring them the alien life form from Tau Ceti-E that can save their star if Dr. Grace's sacrifice failed.

    Grace, now fifty-seven years old, is just trying to balance his life as a teacher while no longer being the only human on the planet anymore. It's a big adjustment, but Rocky and the Terra's Grace crew are going to make sure he's well taken care of.

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    09 Aug 2026