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Rocket Science by emilieee
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
05 May 2026
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“Understand,” Rocky says slowly. “Grace sad because Grace miss Earth and Grace students.”
That much was true, but…
“Not exactly,” Grace mumbles. “She—Stratt—was the one in charge of the project. So she’s also the one who made the executive decision to send me into space.”
This time Rocky’s silence is longer.
Or: Rocky learns about two things: who Eva Stratt was, and Christmas.
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06 May 2026
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Morbid, that's what this is, and I don't want it to be.
I'll leave this part out of any memoirs, I guess, just mention it in passing. If there is any time to write memoirs: if Rocky gets me to Erid alive, and he and his fellow alien scientists are able to engineer some way to keep me functioning, then I'll jot this all down in their language and mine for posterity's sake. I've gotten used to chronicling. If I could get this story to Earth, everybody would line up in the bookstores to get their hands on it. They might even forgive me my faults. I'd read my book, too, but mostly for Rocky. He's easy to get attached to.
Not feeling like I'll have much time left for my memoirs today, though.I read Project Hail Mary last year but was thinking again about the period of time on the journey back to Erid where Ryland becomes malnourished and seriously ill and I wanted to write a couple scenes about it. Literary references included for my own enjoyment.
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05 May 2026
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Anger is just love, left out, gone to vinegar by taylor_tut
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)
05 May 2026
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Once Grace learns Rocky's sleep patterns, he starts sneaking out and back in before he wakes up. When he gets really hurt in the lab while Rocky is asleep, however, he has to wait for rescue, then fight to get to the med bay, and THEN worry about making up with Rocky. Fun banter and a little extra angsty fight at the end as a treat. (title is, as always, a dessa lyric)
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05 May 2026
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not to be confused with... by alltehgay
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
08 Mar 2026
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This article is about humans who lack sexual attraction or interest in sexual activity. For the lack of romantic attraction, see Aromanticism. For the lack of a gender, see Agender. For other uses, see Asexual (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Asexual reproduction.
So I am confused. Or, I did exactly what that little dummy paragraph said and confused asexuality with asexual reproduction. Which is something I don’t ever need to be Googling because I have a flipping doctorate in this crap. Why am I looking this up agin? I am far too exhausted for this.
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05 May 2026
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resonance by decimalsbuiltdifferent
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 May 2026
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"Grace sad, not good. I fix."
"… Um. How?" I ask. "Oh, God, please don't make me a human-shaped robot to hug. That would be so creepy."
"No robot," Rocky promises.
(Or: Grace was touch-starved even before he left Earth. Rocky attempts to fix.)
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- Part 4 of project hail mary fics :)))))
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02 May 2026
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home (is where the heart is) by sebastian2017
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
25 Mar 2026
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Grace begins to doubt he'll make it to Erid alive. Rocky tries to distract him with talks of what his new home should look like.
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the story of how Grace wound up with his little slice of Earth on Erid
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02 May 2026
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Plagal Daydreams by spacechords for alyssaLikesSpace (The_Arson_Phrog)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
26 Mar 2026
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Rocky tries to teach Grace how to speak Eridian. It goes…okay. And strangely emotionally.
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01 May 2026
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Stolen Sympathy for All My Worst Mistakes by Huntress8611
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
28 Mar 2026
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We're almost at Erid. I have to tell him before we get in range of whatever radio-equivalent they use. He deserves to know, to have the chance to tell everyone before I land. He should know I’m a coward before he convinces his planet to funnel all their resources into keeping me alive.
I've thought it through so many times, in the years since I remembered.
‘Hey Rocky, I need to tell you something.’
‘Hey Rocky, you know how you always call us brave? Well…’
‘Hey Rocky so the actual reason I had amnesia when I met you was because I said no when they asked me to save my planet even though I was the only qualified candidate and they forced me to and I said if they sent me I'd kill everyone by sabotaging the mission so Stratt gave me some insane amnesia drug.’
Not exactly a conversation anyone wants to have ever, let alone with their roommate in a ship with no escape. Not something anyone wants to hear from the person they're relying on to save their people, either.
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28 Apr 2026
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Scary Sleep by constantconfusion14
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Mar 2026
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Distantly, Grace recognizes what he's experiencing is either impossible or has already happened -- but it doesn't make the nightmare any easier to process. The science behind dreaming and nightmares is easy to explain to an Eridian. The emotional turmoil that comes with it is...not so much.
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26 Apr 2026
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Saving Grace by agoldengalaxy
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Mar 2026
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“Grace, question?” Rocky was becoming increasingly more nervous. He’d never seen Grace do this before. Sleep was supposed to be restful. This didn’t look restful at all.
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24 Apr 2026
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Conflict Resolution by Anonymous
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
30 Mar 2026
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It's been a full year of living in close quarters on the Hail Mary. Grace was bound to mess up eventually.
If Grace was still on Earth, he would have plenty of options for places to go. A quiet park, maybe a movie theater, a walk on the beach. Something like that. As it is, stuck on the Hail Mary, he just doesn’t have that many options of places to go after a fight with his roommate.
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- Part 1 of phm works
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24 Apr 2026
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Bachelor by sebastian2017
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
01 Apr 2026
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Grace explains to Rocky that he doesn't have a mate waiting back home, nor does he particularly want one. It takes a few missteps, but Rocky gets there eventually.
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24 Apr 2026
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do it again, do it again by UpsideUmber
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
31 Mar 2026
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"Grace, question?” Rocky says from his tunnel.
“Yeah?” I peek my head up, wiping nonexistent dust off my pants. The storage compartment was almost completely sterile, but I needed something to do with my hands.
“All okay, question?” There’s a slight quiver in the notes of his voice that I’ve come to recognize as hesitance.
“Of course, buddy.” I laugh disbelievingly, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Ryland finds Yao’s gun and he is perfectly normal about it, thank you very much. He’s only been stuck in the same environment eating the same meals everyday for a year now. He’s fine.
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24 Apr 2026
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“Yes,” Rocky says eventually. “Human music bad bad bad. But has been long time since Rocky has heard other music.”
That makes something hurt in the back of Ryland’s throat, a sick feeling right to the pit of his stomach. Maybe it’s cruel, to dangle something like this in front of Rocky, a crude approximation of what his home must be like, sounds constantly, chirping song a present language instead of a lonely whisper. Maybe it’s cruel, still, because the background instruments and high-pitched wordless belts must hold some kind of meaning to Rocky, must be ascribed to an unknown word Ryland might never learn.
Though – he’s selfish, because he wants to share music with Rocky. And maybe it isn’t all cruel. Maybe it’ll be nice, to hear something that is some kind of taste of home, after so so long of only hearing your own chirps and whistles, and then the static feedback of the communication device.
Ryland swallows. “Wait until you hear The Sex Pistols.”
“Why are guns reproducing, question?”
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Or: Ryland introduces Rocky to music, with mixed results.
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24 Apr 2026
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Having a Beer with Neil Armstrong by forkempties
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 Apr 2026
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When Grace has a nightmare aboard the Hail Mary, his sleep talking startles Rocky, who wakes him up and demands to know more about the source of his distress.
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24 Apr 2026
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After Ryland Grace is sent into his early coma, Carl is assigned to pack up his things for his trip on the Hail Mary.
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My explanation for why Grace had so much random shit with him on the Hail Mary
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23 Apr 2026
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silence more musical than any song by hansdevice
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 Apr 2026
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Hours later, Rocky wriggles awake. The pain has eased. His heartbeats have slowed. His cells are still functioning. There is no falling apart. He can hear the scritch-scratch of his five claws on Xenonite. He can hear the machines, humming their false song. He can hear the silent expanse of space. The distant stars. His friends, dead in the hull. And the building feeling, deep in every cell — every fibre of his body — that something is so incredibly wrong.
Rocky knows this disease. Exhaustion. And all alone in space, there is no cure.
It is a primal requirement that Eridians sleep only under the trusting gaze of their companions. Rocky spends forty-six years alone in space.
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23 Apr 2026
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Grace is feeling the weight of malnutrition on the way to Erid. Rocky is watching his friend waste away. They watch a movie together.
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23 Apr 2026
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I snort. "Yeah, got me there. I'm old, okay? Just give me a second."
A handful of moments pass. Then, "How old, question?" Rocky asks.
I open my mouth, and then I realize exactly what I just walked into.
Or: Grace and Rocky and a small conversation about lifespans.
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23 Apr 2026
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a name is a symphony by InsaneTrollLogic
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
06 Apr 2026
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Rocky spends several years talking exclusively with an atonal human. This has some significant effects on his speech patterns.
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- Part 1 of Word People
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23 Apr 2026