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It started, as it often did, with a missing girl.
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Her dad and Mr. Healy are good guys. The Nice Guys. And together, the two of them make up one mostly responsible parent. That's what she tells Jessica, anyway, when Jessica's parents finally let her come over to their new house for a sleepover after they've gotten over the whole being thrown through a plate glass window by an assassin incident.
"They should be boyfriends," Jessica says.
Wait.
"What?" Holly says, freezing in place as she feels the world reset around her.
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A few weeks after starting the Nice Guys agency March gets drunk, Healy gets a strange inkling, and Holly watches The Parent Trap.
Not for the first time, Jackson wonders why he agreed to this partnership. But there’s something he can’t quite put his finger on, something about the soft, hapless, helpless way March loves his daughter and knows what a screwup he is, that makes something funny happen inside Jackson’s chest. He hasn’t eaten yet today but it feels almost like his stomach is twisting, like he’s about to do something stupid and completely out of his own control even though Jackson Healy has always prided himself on how well he keeps himself under control.
Not food poisoning, Jackson thinks. March poisoning.
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15 Aug 2026
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He’s already sucker punched March and broken his arm and now look where he is. Sitting in the man’s kitchen, worried about his kid, wishing he’d had the good sense not to let himself get emotionally attached to either of them, and knowing goddamn well that it’s too late.
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And Cassandra Wept by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
11 Aug 2026
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“I'm trying to remember who was in there.” Grace sounds distracted again, thoughts miles away. “I’m trying to remember the experiments that were scheduled. I think… I think…” He sobs and slaps a hand over his mouth as if the noise has snuck up on him. “I think Shapiro and Dubois… I think they wanted to… but I can’t remember if that was today. I can’t remember, Carl!”
A shiver runs down Carl’s spine and it feels like the ground is falling out from under him. His vision is swimming with black spots for a second but he blinks them back by sheer force of will.
This can’t be happening. He refuses to believe that this is happening. Because if Shapiro and Dubois were in that building that means…
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Some might argue that Carl knew from the moment they all gathered in that conference room what would be asked of Dr. Grace and that it wasn’t really a choice at all.
I think he knew much, much longer than that.
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12 Aug 2026
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"You know who you are. You’ll do great."
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Blackmail. Illegal porn. Undercover at a gay bar. The Nice Guys sure are at it again.
“Porn? I can throw a rock in this neighborhood and I’m gonna break the window of a porn store.”
March gestured anxiously, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Healy paused. “Ohhhhh. The nasty stuff. Whips and handcuffs. Girls and animals.”
“Close,” March said, grimacing. He really, really didn’t want to have to explain this. “Think more like…. Disco.”
“Disco?” Healy raised an eyebrow. “What, like the queer music? You think the back room of that store is full of porn for… For disco fans.” He nodded thoughtfully a couple of times. “And you’re an expert about this?”
For a second the whole world went white around the edges and March thought he might pass out. He was too sober for this conversation. What exactly had Healy noticed that morning, how obvious exactly had his full-body reaction to Healy’s hand on his neck been? “I was a happily married man!” March said, and as soon as it came out of his mouth he knew it was wrong. Too fast, too high-pitched, too loud.
Incriminating.
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11 Aug 2026
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“Not like a replacement. Not just someone new. Someone who…” Someone who picks up all the pieces of myself that I keep losing and dropping and breaking. Someone who loves my daughter. Someone who makes me think that maybe I’m better off alive.
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March had his palm read once, years back, by a hack psychic in a gaudy tent at some old timey carnival Holly had begged to go to. She'd taken one look at his craggy hands – two fingers bandaged at the time - and told him, in no uncertain terms, that if he didn't slow down, boy, he was gonna hurt himself. He tipped her very badly.
Suffice to say, he did not often have the appearance of a man in control of his own destiny.
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09 Aug 2026
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So they sit and hold hands and watch the sun setting over Moonstone Beach: March, and his family, and Healy.
March, he corrects himself, and his family.
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“You know he’s clueless, right?” Holly says.
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Give Me Shelter by Chrissy22
Fandoms: David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
20 Aug 2026
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Simon has been living on Erid for a year. As far as the Eridians are concerned, Simon is just a normal regular guy. The eel teeth, the scales, the tree bark? All normal human things. Simon lets them believe it. What are they gonna do, check?
Then Adrian’s mate arrives with another human in tow, and Simon’s panicking. If the savior of Erid thinks he’s a monster, if he leverages the debt Erid owes him to kick Simon out…
Grace knows he’s a guest in this stranger’s home - Adrian made it very clear that said stranger is cagey around new people and if he asks Grace to leave, Grace has to go back on the Hail Mary until they can build him his own place. After four years crammed in a small space ship, Grace is desperate to be allowed to stay.
There’s a miscommunication in there somewhere.
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03 Aug 2026
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Simon was a little bit in love. With Grace or with the laptop remained to be seen.
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Sitting Here Wishing on a Cement Floor by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 Jul 2026
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She finally looks at the gift Grace has brought her.
It is a cactus. Eva has no idea about cacti so she can’t tell if it’s a special kind but to her it looks like any other cactus she’s ever seen. It is round and not much bigger than her fist, sprouting long and wicked looking spikes in every direction. The pot is a nondescript brown, the kind of pot you can find in every hardware store.
All in all, it looks utterly unremarkable.
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Grace gifts Stratt a cactus because as far as plants go, they are pretty hard to kill. Stratt might get too busy to care for it sometimes but that's alright.
As long as Grace is around, he can pick up the slack.
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01 Aug 2026
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“The place needs a bit of green, don't you think?”
He'll never see green again. He'll never see a plant or a flower or a tree again.
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Adolescence, Patricide, and Other Disasters in Parenting by HermesDay
Fandoms: The Nice Guys (2016), The Gray Man (2022), Project Hail Mary (2026), The Fall Guy (2024)
30 Jul 2026
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“I don’t want to.”
“Don’t want to what, buddy?”
There’s a suspiciously wet noise on the other side of the closet door.
This would be so much easier if Holland could have a smoke. But no—he’s done with that. He knows if he gets out his lighter right now, Ryland will never tell him anything.
Not that the kid’s saying anything anyway. He’s just crying on the other side of this stupid door, and all Holland can do is sit here and listen.
Holland March’s life has never been what one would call stable. But he’s doing his best and he’s making it work, and it isn’t perfect but it’s pretty damn close. Then social services calls, and within twenty-four hours he has two traumatized nephews on his doorstep and one in custody on charges of murdering March’s (estranged) twin brother.
Thrown into the deep-end, March struggles to confront this new reality. Who was his brother, really? What could have driven his nephew to such an abrupt act of violence? And, most importantly: why didn’t March see this coming?
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Ave Maria by nopaintjustpain
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
30 May 2026
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I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.
Right up until Rocky asks another question.
“When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”
Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”
Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.
“Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”
I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.
“When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”
I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.
“Grace. When last time, question.”
I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.
“Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”
I can taste grass.
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AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.
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brother, i'm right here by Fish_With_A_Pen
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Fall Guy (2024), The Gray Man (2022)
15 Jul 2026
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"Don't try to get up," Colt says. His voice is very even. "Stay right there, Ry. Just stay."
The man between them looks almost bored, which is somehow the worst thing about him. He checks his watch. He looks at the door.
Come on, Colt thinks. At no one. At the door. At the empty idea of rescue. Come on. Come on.
He doesn't let himself think the name.
He thinks it anyway.
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Or, getting kidnapped alongside Colt and Jody is not Ryland's preferred method of learning his long-dead older brother is actually alive.
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- Part 1 of it's your love that brings me home
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aperture by birdbyrne (beezlebubz)
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
24 Aug 2026
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Ryland doesn't know where he is, what he's doing, or why he's doing it. All he knows is that he's in a universe with no stars and that an organization called the COI found the Hail Mary spinning out into deep space. He knows that Rocky may be injured somewhere, and he knows that the man that currently lays in a hospital bed in front of him should be dead as dirt but has miraculously survived.
He knows he has been given an ultimatum. Find out what brought Simon back to life or never see Rocky again.
The task proves more complicated than he thought.
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In the Hands of a Caring God by Nellaplanet
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
30 Jul 2026
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“Sure.” Grace throws his hands up in surrender. “Let’s add ‘maybe an alien’ to the list of possibilities, right next to ‘spontaneously quantum leaped into our airlock’.”
That’s not too bad of a theory, actually, as far as impossible explanations go. Grace is going to have to start keeping an actual list.
He sighs. “Guess we’ll just have to ask him when he wakes up. If he does.”
A man covered in blood just appeared in the Hail Mary, hunted by something incomparably vast. Grace and Rocky have already saved the world once—time to get back to work and do it again. This time, science might not save them, but maybe friendship will still do the trick.
Meanwhile on Earth, Stratt and her team are preparing for the arrival of the Beetles when something—someone—appears on the deck of the icebreaker, changing the trajectory of humanity forever.
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Butterfly Needle by astravere
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
06 Jul 2026
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Ryland needs to draw his own blood.
Unfortunately, Ryland has a problem with needles.
Fortunately, Rocky has an idea.
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My Lover and the Alien by Velika_Azure_Wing
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
18 Apr 2026
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Adrian's love has returned to them from the stars and brought along... an alien. All new things take an adjustment period. Some are just stranger than others.
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- Part 1 of Welcome Home
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Coma by MagicalStardust for here_be_bec, enigma104
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
22 Apr 2026
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In Eridian culture, forcing someone into a state of sleep is one of the worst crimes someone can commit.
Rocky discovers what happened to Grace.
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Before the Hail Mary by astravere
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
12 Jun 2026
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A series of prequels set before Project Hail Mary.
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02 Jul 2026
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“Can I think about it?” he said.
Marissa reached over and picked up the bottle, holding it up to the light. The glass refracted it, casting a small rainbow across Ryland’s shirt.
“You’ve got until we finish this,” she said.
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culture shock by sly_as_an_alpaca
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
21 Apr 2026
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“Rocky not explain question?” asked Adrian slowly.
“Busy,” said Rocky, sheepish.
“Had four years on ship.”
“Busy then too.”
Adrian skittered back and forth, which I think equated to a human throwing both hands up in exasperation. “With what question?”
“Science!”
“Whole time science question? Four years!”
“Is much science in universe!”--
Rocky has neglected to explain some very important cultural context to Grace.
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Enrichment by alatarmaia4
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
02 Apr 2026
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The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).
Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.