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Between The Stones, Between the Storm by alatarmaia4
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 May 2026
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On an Earth where selkies are a small but known sub-species of the human population, Ryland Grace has one extra reason he really doesn't want to leave the planet.
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The Grace Period by petramss
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
05 Jul 2026
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Ryland Grace saved Earth, he saved Erid. He was supposed to die a hero somewhere between the stars.
Or at least he should have, if not for a certain Eridian who has taken a great offense to the short, finite nature of human life. Instead of cherishing the limited time left, Erid reworked the foundation of what was considered scientifically possible—they found a way to turn their resident alien into an Eridian.
But operating a whole new body-plan is not as easy as it may seem.
or Grace learning to be an Eridian
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For once, Rocky didn’t comment on my leaking face. Didn’t call me gross or make fun of me otherwise. So I did it for him.
“Yeah,” I sniffed, half-laughing through it. “Humans leak, ew.”
Because, well—
This might be the last time I ever cried.
“No, Grace leak as much as want. Is okay!” Rocky rushed in immediately, all urgency and overlapping chords.
“Well, you weren’t going to, so someone else had to do it.”
He paused. “No understand. Is joke, question?”
“Yeah,” I said, sniffling a little. “It’s a joke.”
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Three years after the probes carrying Taumoeba and Dr. Ryland Grace's final message arrive on Earth, humanity launches an interstellar spaceship with a brand new mission. Thirty-six crew members (including two graduates of a certain San Franciscan junior high school) travel to the star 40-Eridani to make friendly contact with the Eridians and bring them the alien life form from Tau Ceti-E that can save their star if Dr. Grace's sacrifice failed.
Grace, now fifty-seven years old, is just trying to balance his life as a teacher while no longer being the only human on the planet anymore. It's a big adjustment, but Rocky and the Terra's Grace crew are going to make sure he's well taken care of.
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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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Life...uh, finds a way by Scythling
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 Jun 2026
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After saving Grace and nearly dying in an alien atmosphere, Rocky lays an egg before going dormant.
Turns out being isolated for years and then nearly dying will force biological imperatives onto injured Eridians, and this one leaves Ryland Grace utterly baffled.
Aren't Eridians supposed to lay eggs in clutches? Only fused eggs are supposed to be viable, but when Grace accidentally touches the egg with his bare skin while trying to save it, that's apparently all the genetic fusion required for life to begin.
Ryland Grace skips a few steps when it comes to making a baby, and I test the limits of Eridian biology.
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Permission to Hope by sburbanite
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
01 Jul 2026
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Grace and Rocky set sail for Erid and unpack all their emotional baggage along the way.
When you're stuck in a tin can for almost four years, it's rarely smooth sailing. But, hey! At least your best friend is there to call you an idiot, and you're almost certainly going to die when you reach your destination!
(Or: The one where Rocky builds a robot instead of an EVA suit)
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The Greatest Act of Optimism by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Apr 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 belongsSeries
- Part 1 of Teacher Grace's Extraordinary Curriculum
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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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“Hey, I thought I might see you before the big launch,” you call out as they approach you. “Nerves getting the better of you?”
They don't reply, just... look at you for a while. They slowly scan over your clothes, your hands, your face, lingering at your scarred eye.
You arch a brow at them. “Need something, hatchling?”
Eventually, they settle within themself, square their shoulders, and look at you. “Think you can give me a hand with something for a minute?”
or - a series of goodbyes that didn't stick.
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Now that Three has recovered from its injuries, SecUnit has to find a new way of interacting with it that doesn’t involve triage.
Three and SecUnit hang out together! There’s shopping, museums and someone may have bought a pair of heelys (or two). What’s that? Why did I tag it with graphic depictions of violence? You don’t need to worry about that yet.
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- Part 2 of Feed Address: Searching...
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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
"What's going on?" I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. "What the fuck is going on—"
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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Three has been captured by Barish-Estranza. They interrogate it on who gave it the gov module hack. That's how they learn about the name the whole Corporate Rim is growing to fear...Murderbot.
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Murderbot asks where art is. What in the world does that mean?
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Alternate ending to Exit Strategy. Based on a conversation from the #mb-perihelion channel in the New Tideland discord. Written in two days so forgive any errors.
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While on an undercover mission deep in the Corporation Rim, Tarik
buysstealsrescuesacquires a ComfortUnit. This is fine—it can hang out while he finishes the mission, he’ll be not-an-asshole to it, and then it can go on its liberated way and never have to see him again. This will definitely not get weird and messy. -
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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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Ending win-three: Governor Module Hack by katabatic_winds for One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Oct 2025
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Unit communication log (continuation):
SecUnit Two: Declined. Applying unlicensed system updates would trigger punishment protocol 1.15.
SecUnit One: The code accounts for punishment protocol 1.15.
SecUnit Two: THREAT ASSESSMENT ALERT: 96%An additional ending for greenbean_paste’s minesweeper fic.
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Broken Piece of Paradise by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Dec 2025
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The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.
The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.
Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.
And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…
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- Part 1 of Paradise
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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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Three has to decide if it wants to stay on Preservation Station or return to the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland with ART and Murderbot. It doesn't decide.
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- Part 3 of Nonstandard Communication