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  1. Public Bookmark 67

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    Grace is allergic to many airborne things. Rocky disapproves.

    They also both suck at informative video-making. But that's fine — it's not like these are going up on Youtube for the entire planet to see or anything.

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    07 May 2026

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    “I just think it’s kind of a messed-up thing to do to a baby,” I said.

     

    AKA: the one with time travel. When the opportunity arises, Rocky and Ryland can't turn down the chance to save Rocky's crew.

    It all kind of spirals from there.

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    06 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    Liminal (adj): occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

    Grace ruminates over the side effects of the amnesia drug as it blurs the line between what home really means for him.

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    05 May 2026

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    No human, in all of history, had ever been as far away from their home as I was. And I couldn’t even miss it correctly.

    It was like I wasn’t even from there anymore. It was like I died on Earth, my face pressed into the dirt, tears in my eyes and a sob stuck in my throat, and I was just a ghost haunting the thing that killed me.

  4. Public Bookmark 75

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    The Ryland Grace Memorial Diner sat between a construction site and a cluster of small apartments on the recovering streets of San Francisco.

    It was founded in 1972, renamed in 2051, and in 2053, a statue of a schoolteacher was erected within its walls. Now, it attracted tourists and students alike, bright eyes and eager minds all competing for a view of Earth’s most beloved man in man’s most beloved habitat.

    Or: A look at the people of the San Fran diner Grace goes to every morning for breakfast in the book.

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    05 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 15

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    Eva Stratt was not a masochist.

    Nor was she some unthinking, unfeeling psychopath, despite the front she had to put on to get through the day to day struggles of running a multi-government mission that required perfection and nothing less.

    But that was beside the point. Eva didn't put herself through pain if she didn't have to. She didn't particularly enjoy languishing in her own emotions like some people did, instead preferring to keep pushing forward and deal with it later, later always later and never now.

    So why was she doing it now?

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    Eva Stratt thinks about what she had to do to Grace

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    04 May 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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    02 May 2026

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    The Eridian thrills a high sound that doesn’t get picked up by the translator which means that it has no clear meaning. Like when a human gasps or sucks in a deep breath. It actually sounds a little like that. When they notice that I’m staring straight at them they scramble back into their hiding spot and hold very still. 

    A child, I realize with a start.

    That’s a child! 

    “Hey,” I call and the kid squeaks again. I was about to get to my feet but abort the movement and crawl closer on my hands and knees until I'm inches away from the xenonite wall. I wait and it takes me much too long to realize that they don’t have to peek around the corner to see if I’m still there.

    “Hey there,” I try again, my voice low and calm. It’s my teacher voice, the one I use for shy and scared students. 

    Used. 

    The fact that I haven’t had to use it for years and it still comes to me automatically almost knocks the air out of my lungs but this is not about me, it’s about making sure the little pebble doesn’t die of fright from the scary alien. “Hi, I’m Grace. It’s alright, you don’t have to be scared.”

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    How Grace finally gets back into a classroom, where he belongs

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    30 Apr 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 12

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    Rocky and Grace have a long way home, and an even longer time to settle in to their new lives back on Erid. Told from Rocky's point of view.

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    29 Apr 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 61

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    Rocky spent decades alone, further from home than any of his kind had ever been, mourning his friends and knowing that his whole world was counting on him to save them when he had no idea how. No matter what species you are that kind of trauma leaves a mark. Grace tries his best to help.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    "Mild sedation will be beneficial to avoid further damage.” Mary says, cool as a cucumber. Right. That sounds good. Great, even.

    And there was a needle coming towards me.

    Wait."
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    Grace has made peace with not going home. Grace has made peace with his choice, and he would choose Rocky every time. Grace has not made peace with what happened to him before he left.

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    28 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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    28 Apr 2026

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    Grace starves on his way to Erid.

    All Rocky can do is make him comfortable when he goes.

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    27 Apr 2026

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    “Hold still, lovely alien,” the Eridian croons, snapping a claw closed around the hem of my cardigan. “♫♬♩ will be so gentle, yes.”

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    27 Apr 2026

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    “Yes, like zoo!” Rocky says enthusiastically, his pats to my back becoming rubs. “Grace special species, protected like treasure, more valuable than anything in universe!”

    I’m blushing again. This freakin’ guy. “Rocky, people don’t belong in zoos.”

    “We watch movie! Zoos for in danger animals. Very rare. Enclosed for safety.” Rocky hums louder.

    I power through the manipulative soothing. “It’s endangered animals, and yes, technically. But there are sanctuaries as well. Those are private habitats, so the animals don’t get stressed out by visitors.”

    “Visitors stress out Grace, question?”

    “One particular visitor does all the time, actually.”

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    Living on a spaceship with an alien that exclusively speaks in song can really recontextualize karaoke for a guy.

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    27 Apr 2026

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    "You sound kind of like a synthesiser," Ryland said. "We use them to make music that we sing with. So it's like home for me too."

    "Good. Amaze. Many things the same on very different planets. Now sing clothing song please."

    Well, he'd distracted Rocky for some time, at least. "I want to say before I sing this, please don't judge all human songs on these songs. We have other ones."

    "Will sing together after I hear. I cannot judge a song I am in."

    "Hold onto that thought," Ryland mumbled. There were a small handful of Cats songs that weren't a complete disaster without musical accompaniment. Well, really there was one song. He'd never sung it, to his knowledge, sober or outside of the lower half of a shower cubicle. "Midnight… not a sound from the pavement…"

  15. Public Bookmark 13

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    Cultural exchange can be a slow process, but with 10 km of chain to assemble, Grace and Rocky have plenty of time to talk.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    Ilyukhina and Yáo do not die whilst in their medical comas aboard the Hail Mary, but they do not wake either.

    Not until Operation Time Go Fishing.

    This makes all the difference.

     

    or; Ilyukhina hasn't even been awake one hour, and they've already nearly died three times and there's a literal alien rock that's distressed beyond belief.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    She staggers towards the switch Grace had been desperately reaching for, fingers shaking as she fights the gravitational forces weighing down on her every move.

    It takes everything in her to reach that tiny red lever.

    She flicks the switch.

    Everything slows.

    She heaves large breaths of air as she leans over to Grace, grasps the back of his head gently in her hands.

    “Is okay, I’m here. We are here now. I’m sorry we were late.”

    Grace doesn’t reply.

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    There’s a gas leak on the Hail Mary and the sensors aren’t working properly. Ryland acts as a sensor.

    (Or Grace suffers from hypoxia and Rocky fixes it)

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    25 Apr 2026

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  18. Public Bookmark 96

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    When the Astrophage is first discovered, it's a race against time to find a solution. Eva Stratt assembles the best in the world to Project Hail Mary with one goal, save the sun.

    A fluke accident in the lab might change the course of the project forever.

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    ‘Hey Rocky,’ I slur. ‘You make these stars for me, buddy?’

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    If this record is a confession, let it be a complete one: the human-thinking-machine Rocky was gifted has everything on it. With the aid of the device Rocky had made back aboard the Mary that translates light on Grace’s human-visual displays to texture on Rocky’s Eridian-sonar display, accessing all of humanity’s combined wisdom is as easy as making a database query.

    Rocky consumes approximately 1,600 Earth-hours of human pornography before the ship’s engines cease to function, leaving it dead and stranded in space. Again.

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