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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.

    All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.

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    19 Apr 2026

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    Ryland has a tattoo. So does Rocky. It's not the same thing, but it also really is.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    It had been a long and difficult 27 years since the Hail Mary had launched. Not as terrible as it could have been, but not easy. Humanity had survived and adapted, as it always did. There had been terrible wars. There had been incredible acts of kindness. There had been massive scientific breakthroughs. And now, there were two distant blips of Petrova-light, picked up by the Deep Space Network, hurtling home. Two probes, braking hard as they hurtled toward Earth holding the secrets to its salvation. They were late, or at least, not very early, but they were here.

    Grace may have made his peace with dying to save Rocky, but Rocky insists they return to Earth.

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    17 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 85

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    Ship Engineer ‘Rocky’ of the B.L.I.P.-A knows that he’s going to die in Tau Ceti, he's known since the day he joined the taskforce as their chief mathematician and engineer.

    So when an alien astrophage-powered craft comes into view, his only hope is that this is the Hail Mary that he has been praying for his entire life.

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    PHM 'Species Swap’ AU. Human Rocky, Eridian Grace.

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    12 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    He just wanted to be alone. 

    But he hasn’t had that luxury for a long, long time. Stratt’s people always know where he is. It is the nature of being part of a classified project. Assets don't get to just wander away whenever they feel like it. 

    So, really, it is the illusion of privacy he finds on the rooftop. Alone with his looming demons.

    Or a short story based entirely on that two-second scene in the movie showing Grace in his raincoat on the roof.

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    08 Apr 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 20

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    Ryland Grace's unprofessional behavior is jeopardizing his chances of getting his PhD. Director Stratt might be able to help him.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.

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    08 Apr 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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    05 Apr 2026

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    After some of the most traumatic weeks of his life, Ryland could really use a hug. Too bad his only friend and ship-mate isn't physically capable of hugging.

    Eridians, humans, and how we physically express social bonds.

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    04 Apr 2026

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    04 Apr 2026

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    “Grace,” she says gently. “You should really play it.”

    I don’t take my eyes off the light. “Are…are we sure it’s real?” I whisper.

    She barks out her boisterous laugh. “I am absolutely the wrong person to ask,” she says.

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    When Grace goes back for Rocky, all he finds is a dead and silent ship. Being the only one left to bring Taumoeba to Erid, he decides to brave the long trip alone. He's not the same man when he arrives at Erid, but an unexpected friendship might bring him back to sanity.

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    01 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 53

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    Christ, what had they done? How hard do you have to fuck up in order to blow a building to pieces? Knowing astrophage, not that much. E=mc^2 is a bitch. One little fuck-up, one tiny mistake, and you and everyone around you is dead.

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    the days following the explosion at baikonur, all the way up to coma time, from Ilyukhina's perspective.
    * title from Richard Hugo's poem, Last Days

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    27 Mar 2026

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    “Grace. What are you testing, question?”

    Rocky. I can’t put this all on the guy right now. He should be happy. We are going to Erid. We are going to save his planet.

    “CBC. A complete blood count.” I answer, hoping he doesn’t ask me why.

    “Purpose, question?”

    Rocky, please. I’m trying to spare you right now.

     

     

    Basically, Grace gets exposed to a dangerous amount of radiation during an EVA and doesn't want to tell Rocky bc of what happened to Rocky's crew <3

     

    THIS IS A REWORKED VERSION OF "TEMPEST" - after some comments, I wanted to keep the soul of the story, but make it more scientifically plausible. While there are still probably some inaccuracies, I still hope this isn't as messy as before.

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    27 Mar 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 74

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    Grace takes a few hours to stargaze with what he has. Rocky tries to tag along.

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    23 Mar 2026

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    It's been weighing on Grace's mind for a while, the fact that he never wanted to go. Rocky deserved to know.

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    23 Mar 2026

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    Project Hail Mary from Rocky's Perspective.

    Also includes a couple of bonus chapters at the end.

    Bonus chapter 1: Rocky and Grace's arrival at Erid
    Bonus chapter 2: Grace introduces Rocky to Earth life
    Bonus chapter 3: Grace introduces Rocky to Tetris
    Bonus chapter 4: Rocky finds out about the Golden Record

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    17 Mar 2026

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    Ryland Grace encounters a problem he can’t solve without getting into the NannyBot’s guts. He’s not prepared for what he finds inside.

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    16 Mar 2026

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