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    The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture prohibits prisoners being held in solitary confinement for longer than 15 days.

    It had been 28 months since Eva Stratt had heard another voice.

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    18 Apr 2026

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  2. Public Bookmark 87

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    Ryland didn’t notice the first time it happened, nor any subsequent ones, that his memories were scrambled beyond the past and the present.

    It’s years later, while he’s walking on Erid’s beach, that he realizes he has overlooked something monumental.

    And little by little, hundreds of fragmented pieces solve a puzzle he didn’t know he had, where his vivid dreams and half formed visions are more than daydreams and wistful thinking. As he said before, “Up is down, left is right, xenon is a solid, aliens are real.”

    The only way to move forward is to go back.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    (n) evenness of mind, especially under stress.

    Eva Stratt relives Project Hail Mary nine times.

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    30 Apr 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    “'You’ve barely mastered English. Why do you have the sudden need to speak Dutch?'
    Grace shrugged.
    'Because I want to get to know you better.'
    He was sweet. She’d give him that.
    'Dr. Grace,’ Eva said as gently as she could muster, 'You cannot even say my last name.'
    'I didn’t say I’d do a good job.’"

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    22 May 2026

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    What the title says. About 11 years ago (from my perspective; relativity is weird) I was launched into space onboard the Hail Mary to figure out a solution to the Astrophage problem. Now I live on an alien planet I call Erid, in the 40-Eridani system. Yes, I’m actually Ryland Grace. Ask me anything.

    Also, can someone please tell me if Eva Stratt is alive? And ideally send me a video of you punching her in the face? Guess that’s a long shot, but it can’t hurt to ask.

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    Grace and Rocky figure out how to connect to Earth's internet from Erid. They may not have thought this through.

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    19 May 2026