Project Hail Mary fics that shot me into space
Buckle up folks, and get ready for some major feelings
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Cuddle Buddy by ChocolateSyrup
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 May 2026
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"Hey...can I ask you something kind of weird?"
"Shoot," Rocky says, his voice sounding amused. "But not actually shoot."
Grace wants to laugh at the joke (he's been getting better at joking and sarcasm) but instead he swallows, his fingers tracing idle patterns on the blanket. The ache from earlier at the classroom, the beach, the constant invisible wall feels closer tonight.
"What does it feel like... to touch you?" he asks. "I mean, if we could. Your carapace. Your claws. What would it feel like to me?"
Rocky is quiet for a long beat. When he sings again, his melody is thoughtful and gentle.
"Hard. Rocky, like name. Like...strong stone that is alive. My claws are sharp but careful. My body pulses a little when I am happy. Like singing Grace can feel instead of hear." He pauses, then adds with a soft, almost shy trill, "What does human skin feel like, question? To me, I wonder."
He imagines it.
In his mind, the xenonite shell vanishes.
Or: Grace is touch starved and Rocky wants to make it better
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Come on in, the water's fine by I_Like_This_A_Normal_Amount
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
20 May 2026
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All life on Earth evolved, in the beginning, from aquatic life forms. To many, the call to return to the ocean is instinctual, a feeling deep in their bones that goes far beyond any rational reasoning. To float amongst the waves, to kick and splash until it feels as though you were always part of the water, is to be entirely free.
--Or--
Grace gets access to an ocean, and immediately forgets everything else he's supposed to be doing.
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Open Up Your Eyes by Brokenpitchpipe
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
24 Apr 2026
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“Are you going to tell me what I did wrong, or are you just going to give me the silent treatment for the next four years?”
“Human treatment to induce silence?” Rocky perks up. “Good plan. You teach. I administer.”
(or: the long, bumpy road to the truth)
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is not enough by straddling_the_atmosphere
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
27 May 2026
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“Grace how old question?”
Grace blinks, lifting his head up from the cool metal of the lab table where he’s been nursing a headache for the last hour. Caffeine withdrawal, he thinks, having finally run out of coffee four months into their four year journey to Erid.
“Thirty—uh…” His mind blanks for a second, forgetting to calculate the four years he spent in a coma, and the still slightly patchy memories that have come back from his life. “Thirty-six, I think? Give or take a year or two.”
Or: Rocky finds out how long humans live and crashes out.
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Who the Hell Is Simon??? by patchsicle
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
19 May 2026
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The Beetles have returned to Earth, and the old Project Hail Mary team have gathered to see what's on them. Everyone is very excited to see how Grace, Rocky, and Simon saved the planet.
Wait a minute, Simon? Who the hell is Simon?
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An Empty Space and a Formless Shape by stormpetrel
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
28 May 2026
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“Um, hello.” Rocky lifts a hand slowly. The rock spider chitters and attempts to lift one back. But it’s tangled in wire, and the force that the alien uses to tug it free sends his body reeling backwards and thumping against the side of the tunnel. Rocky tries to keep a straight face.
“I’ll call you Grace,” he says. “Clearly you have plenty of it.”
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Rocky wakes up in the Tau Ceti system, with his commander and science specialist dead. How's he supposed to save Earth?
Befriend the alien scientist he runs into, of course.
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Hail Mary, full of Grace (are you sure about this, Stratt?!) by Des98, princelokiofasgard
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
25 May 2026
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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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“Grace!” Rocky says. “Look!”
I look. Then I gasp.
“Is Adrian!” Rocky says.
(or, what happens once Ryland Grace becomes the sole human inhabitant of Erid.)
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- Part 1 of Project Hail Mary
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Amazing Grace, How Bright the Stars, That Saved a World Like Me! I Once Was Lost, in Endless Dark, Now Earth can Finally Breathe by Badger666
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, The Gray Man (2022), The Nice Guys (2016), The Fall Guy (2024), Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
29 May 2026
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“Let me ensure I understand correctly,” Yao counted slowly on his fingers.
“Your oldest brother is an alcoholic private detective.”
“Yeah.”
“Your second brother killed your abusive father.”
Grace nodded sleepily. “Self-defense mostly but yeah.”
“Your third brother is in a committed relationship with a sex doll.”
“Bianca is very nice
Yao continued as though he had not heard that.
“And your twin brother throws himself off buildings
Grace thought about it. A very long exhausted pause. “…Yeah that about sums it up.”
Silence again.
Stratt looked at Yao.
Yao looked at Stratt.
The realization passed silently between them with horrifying clarity.
So Grace—
This exhausted, socially awkward, disaster of a scientist currently clinging to Eva Stratt like a drowning kitten—
Was the normal one.
God help them all.
Stratt stared down at him for another second before one particular detail from earlier finally circled back around.
“You slept with Tom Ryder.”
Grace nodded against her shoulder.
“Mmhm.”
“The internationally famous actor.”
“Yep.”
“How?”