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    Dick can barely stand because of the shock seizing his body. “What’s your name?”
    The kid stares at him. He’s got a name tag, but Dick can barely see anything under the dim fluorescent-green lights, much less tiny text with his blurring vision.
    “It’s Jason,” the kid answers tightly. “Are you high, man?”

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    13 May 2026

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    Eva and Ryland are five years married when the Petrova Line is discovered. After Dubois and Shapiro are killed in the lab explosion, Eva has to send her husband to his death.

    Nothing is different, but everything is different.

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    13 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 63

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    When Stratt opens her eyes to the achingly, depressingly familiar Hail Mary crew coma bag, when she becomes aware of tubes and medical equipment and robotic arms, she should be confused, or angry, or terrified. Instead, the only thought she can manage is yes, this seems fair.

    Stratt wakes up on the Hail Mary in Ilyukhina's spot.

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    27 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 71

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    Eva Stratt, some years after Project Hail Mary's success, visits one of the many memorials to Ryland Grace. She is not sorry for how things happened.

    Based on a tumblr post I made about a statue of Grace.

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    27 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 63

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    The cosmos is a Dark Forest. What better way to flush out prey than to send out stareaters?

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    When Grace gets to Tau Ceti, he gets captured by a hostile alien civilization. He befriends a fellow prisoner who happens to be a space rock. Together, they need to figure out how the heck to escape. But first, they have to stop jumpscaring each other.

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    11 Apr 2026

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    "Olesya," she says. "Ilyukhina. I'm the engineer here, and he is pilot and commander." She hooks her thumb over at Yao as she says it.

    "You," she continues, gesturing forwards with both hands, "are our scientist. I hope you remember science?"

    "Um." Do I remember science? I think so.

     

    Or: The Hail Mary, with two fewer funerals.

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    11 Apr 2026

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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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    11 Apr 2026

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    Theresa Cabral is two weeks, three days, and ten hours from defending her PhD thesis in molecular biology when she gets a text from a kid she went to middle school with.

    Michael Whitman (11:06 pm):
    Did you see it?

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    11 Apr 2026

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    “Grace. What are you testing, question?”

    Rocky. I can’t put this all on the guy right now. He should be happy. We are going to Erid. We are going to save his planet.

    “CBC. A complete blood count.” I answer, hoping he doesn’t ask me why.

    “Purpose, question?”

    Rocky, please. I’m trying to spare you right now.

     

     

    Basically, Grace gets exposed to a dangerous amount of radiation during an EVA and doesn't want to tell Rocky bc of what happened to Rocky's crew <3

     

    THIS IS A REWORKED VERSION OF "TEMPEST" - after some comments, I wanted to keep the soul of the story, but make it more scientifically plausible. While there are still probably some inaccuracies, I still hope this isn't as messy as before.

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    11 Apr 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 40

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    “No word in Eridian. Human Earth thing. Explain.”

    Ryland thinks back, then – oh. Ohhhh. Oh God. “What, Jesus Christmas?”

    “Yes. Yes yes yes.”

    “Ohhhhh boy,” says Ryland.

    Admittedly, he kinda wants to have this conversation. Not because he’s looking forward to bumbling through a terrible explanation of the thousand Gods that humans have worshipped over the centuries, but he’s curious to know if Eridians worship anything. If they have ancient theories about the origins of the universe that morphed into a way of life over the years. Where that might’ve come from.

    Alien theology might’ve been the number-one priority of some human scientists and biologists, and maybe he should’ve asked about this before he sent the Beetles off, but – hey. This is just for him. Besides, he’s flying to Erid. It’ll be good to know cultural customs before he lands and says something that accidentally offends a whole alien religion, or something. Because that’s something he would 100% manage to do.

    “What.”

    “Rocky, do Eridians have religion?”

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    11 Apr 2026

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    When the Beetles return to Earth, and the footage is set to be released to the public, Ryland Grace's former students plan a reunion to watch and celebrate together, and remember the teacher who inspired and guided them.

    A story told in emails, transcripts, text messages, and other documents.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    Abby was thirteen when her favorite teacher was shot off into space with no chance of return.

    And she was thirty-three when that teacher saved Earth.

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    09 Apr 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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    09 Apr 2026

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    The deaf spot of all Eridians is silent, open air. A piece of the crumbling biodome’s ceiling finally snaps from its connection point and plummets. It falls towards the abandoned shore, unapologetic to anyone who may already be down there.

    Rocky can’t realize something’s quickly approaching them until it’s far too late.

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    Set hundreds of years after the end of the book, a case of wrong-place/wrong-time leads Rocky to a catch a glimpse of what and who might be waiting for them beyond.

    (Rocky finally gets to see Grace again)

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Jesus, my back.

    I pause, gasping for breath — I'm genuinely sweating. And embarrassed. I wonder if Rocky can hear me losing to a slab of wood.

    God, I hope he can't. Please God.

    It's stuck behind a few empty crates and some miscellaneous spare lab supplies. A few beakers. A blender, for some reason. An ironing board. Why? Because go to hell, Ryland Grace, that's why. You can't have enough fuel to come back but you can have an ironing board with no iron. Here's two kilos of cement-flavoured coma slurry. Kill yourself.

    "I'm being dramatic," I tell myself aloud.

    I'm really not. Dying in space is a very dramatic situation.

    The ways that Rocky and Grace miss everything all the time, yet watch over each other, always.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Ryland Grace slams face first into the realization that he will never be touched by another living being again. Rocky does his best to help.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    As he settles into Erid, Grace finds himself wanting more and more to better blend in with his new neighbors. His biology is a hard bridge to cross, but he gets a few ideas when Rocky gifts him some Eridian gems.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Rocky spends several years talking exclusively with an atonal human. This has some significant effects on his speech patterns.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    On the long journey to Erid, Rocky and Grace tell each other their reasonings for going on their respective missions.

    Rocky is... less than pleased with Grace's answer.

    Or - Rocky finds out that Grace was forced to go on the mission.

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    07 Apr 2026

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    Roche limit: the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the second body's self-gravitation.

     
    As the distance between the Hail Mary and Erid shrinks, as the language and cultural barriers disappear, Grace's health deteriorates and Rocky's worries skyrocket. Scurvy, cabin fever, malnutrition, tension and arguments – their friendship is put to the test when they are faced with challenges they cannot science their way out of. When a sudden Taumoeba emergency disrupts their journey just as they are about to reach Erid's radio range, they are forced to take a detour to Threeworld's Petrova-line to prevent Grace from starving to death. It's one thing to complete a mission when at full capacity… but how do you tackle obstacles you cannot fix with math and engineering?

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    07 Apr 2026

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