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1. Home is where the stars are by SoftButchCassidy

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   16 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Eva Stratt
   • Ava (Iron Lung)
   • Mutated The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • mild body horror
   • Simon does not have anger issues but Grace does a tiny bit
   • Serious Injuries
   • fishing goes bad.
   • Suggestive
   • Swearing
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Simon wants to live
   • POV changes between Grace and Simon as needed
   • Happy Ending

   Summary

   Simon wakes up. He hadn't thought he would wake up after his lungs were filled with blood. And yet, here he is, in a pitch-black room, wounds tended to, listening to the most beautiful song he's ever heard.
   He's in a world where the stars are alive, and he's been rescued from his blood-soaked iron coffin by a strange, clever little rock-spider alien trying to save the stars. Of course he'll help. Too bad neither of them are biologists...
   But the new human ship approaching them might have someone aboard who is... if they don't turn Simon into a lab rat first, anyway.

   [BloodyMary where Simon gets wormholed to PHM 'verse but it's before the Hail Mary arrives, so he's saved by Rocky and spends a while on the Blip-A]

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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   Chapters:

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