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    Grace knows the chances he’ll survive and live a happy, fulfilling life are so comically low it would be easier for him to win the lottery seven times in a row. But he still allows himself to hope he might be able to go home after this is over, after he figures out why Tau Ceti's star isn’t dying.

    If he doesn’t hope, it’s easy to panic, and that isn’t productive to the mission. Besides, there’s another thing that motivates him apart from Stratt’s faith and the knowledge Earth’s fate is in his hands. It’s a bit unexpected, so much so that the realization had made him laugh when it crossed his mind for the first time— it was so sudden and so correct it didn’t even feel like it had come out of his head:

    At least there are no spiders in space.

    Or,

    One severely arachnophobic Ryland Grace meets a tarantula made out of rocks.

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    07 Oct 2026

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    ♩♫♭♭♫ was not trained to deal with insane things like unknown pebbles in strange ships.

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    06 Oct 2026

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    “Nope–no you have to keep the pressure on that, Colt–” Jody grabbed his hand, guided it back upward, glancing over his shoulder to see what he was looking at.

    There wasn’t anything of note behind him, just the pavement and a laughing couple stumbling their way around the corner.

    Was he concussed?

    “I’m not Colt,” Colt said, interrupting Jody’s thoughts. He cocked his head to the side, frowned, tried to lower his hand for the third time like he’d already forgotten what he was supposed to be doing. “I’m trying–I need to find Colt. M’not him.”

    Oh, yeah, he was definitely fucking concussed.

     

    (Ryland is concussed, Colt is framed for murder and concussed, and Jody is definitively lost in all the sauce because someone forgot to tell her that Colt has a twin brother.)

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    06 Oct 2026

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    It’s been twenty-five (or maybe sixty?) years, and Ryland Grace is cruising back into the Sol system, trying to notify Earth that he’s still alive and bringing a couple of aliens home with him.
    It’s been five hundred and seventy-five Sols, and Mark Watney is stranded in a dust storm, trying to notify Earth that he’s still alive and probably never making it home at this point. He wasn’t expecting a Hail Mary.

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    05 Oct 2026

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    After they pick up Mark, everyone is happy and healthy and safe and we're ready for the credits to roll, right?
    Nope.
    You don't escape a year and a half alone on a planet that is actively trying to kill you without a scratch. Which is exactly what the crew is going to learn when Mark comes down with a terrible fever and the cracks in the facade he's put up begin to show just exactly what Mars did to him.

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    05 Oct 2026

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    Everything is a normal amount of wrong on Earth. That means everything bad was expected... this was not expected. The Hail Mary has crashed back to Earth, and it's not as deserted as previously thought.

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    05 Oct 2026

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    Space Pirate-Ninja @MarkWatney
    nasa must agree with me if they only censored my f*uck a little bit last time i tried to swear at martinez they replaced it with an emoji

    Space Pirate-Ninja @MarkWatney
    this is what power feels like: making some poor person at nasa decide which curse words are appropriate to be tweeted out over work wifi

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    05 Oct 2026

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    Due to a malfunctioning ventilation system and sudden shortage of berths, Beck and Watney are officially approved to sleep together by NASA. Fandom sees what it wants to see when Martinez posts an innocent picture, and the Ares 3 crew proceeds to troll the hell out of everyone on Earth (especially Annie Montrose).

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    05 Oct 2026

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    Five things that happen when you get stuck on Mars and have to be dramatically rescued. Or, Mark Watney meets pop culture.

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    05 Oct 2026

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    They’re assholes, every last one of them, and Mark loves them even when they’re poking fun at him. Less than seventy two hours back in their company and they’re already giving him shit. He tells them that space rocks are better company and then falls asleep with his head against Johanssen's shoulder and with Vogel’s hand on his knee.

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    05 Oct 2026

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    Clark looks around himself, at the star system that should have been the final resting place of three astronauts, and only two of them are accounted for. The Hail Mary, and Dr Ryland Grace with it, are completely absent.

    Clark floats for a moment, looking around himself in honest, total bafflement, as if Ryland Grace is going to appear from thin air if he wills it hard enough. He furrows his brow.

    “Huh.”

    Or,

    Clark is confused, Bruce is drawing some conclusions he isn't thrilled about, and Hal is just happy to be there

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    05 Oct 2026

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    05 Oct 2026

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    Mark Watney never manages to make contact with Earth and NASA never realizes that he survived the storm and evacuation on Sol 6. So, needless to say, the crew of the Ares IV is incredibly surprised when they land on Mars to find a scruffy, malnourished, mentally unbalanced, but still-alive astronaut waiting for them.

    These are the stories of Mark's long journey home and the lives of the people he touches along the way. (Mostly told from not-Mark POVs.)

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    05 Oct 2026

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    ARES 3 @AresIII
    Boy's onboard. We're headin' home.

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    04 Oct 2026

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    Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.

    “Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”

    Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.

    The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.

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    04 Oct 2026

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    “Hey Hermes!” The ambient suspicion level in the Rec ratcheted up significantly. Kapoor was disturbingly cheerful. “We’ve sent you some mission updates in the data dump, but Mitch and I wanted to personally let you know—” Mitch visibly rolled his eyes in the background. “—That thanks to some…strong suggestions from the White House, and on Annie and Director Sanders’ recommendation, we’ve started releasing Watney’s Mars logs to the public.”

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    04 Oct 2026

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    Life goes on, even as the world ends and begins again.

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    04 Oct 2026

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    Mark Watney has survived 118 sols on Mars, and he wouldn’t exactly say it’s been a cakewalk, but he only has about three more years of listening to disco to go (ugh) before Ares IV picks him up and take him home. But when something crashes on the Martian surface only a few kilometers from the Hab, NASA wants him to leave the safety of his little home on the Martian prairie to go investigate…what could possibly go wrong?

    Ryland Grace has survived a long time in space and almost a decade on Erid, but the anxiety of not knowing if the beetles made it to Earth finally drives him to try the dangerous journey back home, and Rocky and Adrian come with him. Everything was actually going pretty good…until a horrible accident leaves them hurtling through space (and time) with no choice but to crash land on the wrong planet.

    How is Watney going to deal with the unexpected company (and their weird secretiveness over why they were in space)? Is Grace going to be able to adjust to being around another human being again? And how are Rocky and Adrian going to handle the uncertainty of a reception to an Earth that’s never heard of aliens before?

    More importantly…how the fuck is NASA going to get them all home alive?

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    04 Oct 2026

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    The story of sharkfiinn’s character Prism and their adoptive mom Grace ^^

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    04 Oct 2026

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    The journey to Tau Ceti is a long one.

    Or: For the low low price of clicking a red button, you can pilot the Hail Mary.

    [A HTML-fied interactive game.]

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    04 Oct 2026

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