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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    Ryland Grace has completed his mission, and is living out his days with Rocky on Erid. They've received reports that Sol has returned to full luminance, so he can rest easy knowing Stratt saved the world after all. He's pretty sure it recovered in Earth's 2053. He goes to bed content.

    He wakes up in an old twin bed in San Francisco, with the awful feeling that he's late for school. Or work. Or both. A glance at his phone is enough to rid him of that particular concern (it's Saturday), and fill him with so many others. Why is it 2019?

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    06 Jul 2026

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    After 51 years, the sole survivor of the Petrova mission returns to Erid. It is not alone, and its strange companion is dying.

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    05 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 50

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    The file I’ve found is named: Grace Don't Look Until Beetles Launched

    Creepy. Ominous, even. There’s a little code attached to the file that hides it from a system search. The only way I could have found it was an accident.

    I open the file and a video log pops up. The play button blinks mockingly. The date at the corner of the log is two years before I first woke up on the Hail Mary. It would have been recorded when I was deep in coma-sleep. When everyone on board should have been deep in coma-sleep.

    Ilyukhina’s slightly pixelated visage is sprawled across a pilot chair and she’s mid-chew on a twizzler.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Serpentine: a mineral or rock consisting essentially of a hydrous magnesium silicate usually having a dull green color and often a mottled appearance.

    Grace learns about Eridian Predators the hard way

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    02 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    Humming to himself, Rocky takes a moment to consider this. He’s still an engineer, not a scientist, but it’s hard to not indulge Grace when he’s talking so animatedly and smiling so widely that Rocky can hear his individual teeth. Disgust.

    “… and then there’s chroma,” Oh, he was still talking, “which is the saturation or intensity of the color, and–”

    Not every moment has to be some life-or-death adventure.
    Sometimes there can be beauty in the small delights, and those with whom you enjoy them.

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    28 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 41

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    “Grace remember now. Grace sabotage mission?” Rocky demanded. “You could do, easy. Grace could open taumoeba tanks. Grace could set spin drive to blow up ship. Grace could do many things.”

    “What? No, no, I haven’t done any of that!” I hurriedly reassured. “I won’t, Rocky. I wouldn’t!”

    “If Rocky had no extra fuel, Grace sabotage mission, question?”

    “No! Rocky, I’m not going to sabotage anything! I wouldn’t do that to you.”

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    There are many bad things about Rocky—as there are about any person I’ve ever met. And that isn’t even talking about myself. But the problem isn’t that he’s bossy, or swears like a sailor even though I can’t directly translate, or takes up more than half the space on my own gosh darn ship…

    …No. The problem is that despite all his flaws, he’s too good.

    Rocky is endlessly, painfully good.

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    Grace and Rocky have a very important conversation.

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    26 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 20

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    The Eridians manage to recover some damaged files on the Hail Mary -- one of which is a message to Dr. Grace, from Eva Stratt.

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    25 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 86

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    “And who are you with?”

    “The Petrova Taskforce. I believe you know why we exist.”

    “I do know what the Petrova line is,” I agree. “If you’re coming to a middle school science teacher about it, I must be your Hail Mary.”

    Stratt’s face splinters into a small, sharp smile. “Yes. I believe you are.”

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    25 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 79

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    And one moment that Grace keeps all to himself.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Grace tries copying the tones.

    Rocky hums. “Close. Skip first note.”

    “Why? You always include that.”

    “This means… of Rocky, possessive. Of the speaker.”

    “My.”

    “Correct. But only for names.”

    “So you’re calling me…?”

    Rocky repeats the word: “My Grace. Yes.”

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    15 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 58

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    You realise that you're pulling your limbs closer to yourself, hunkering down, and force yourself to relax. There's nothing to be scared of. Grace isn't sick, you would have noticed. Right? And even if it is sick, it's not dying, its ship is protected from radiation, so it won't be like- it's going to wake up. You will watch over it until it wakes up.

     

    Grace has a nightmare. Rocky takes it badly.

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    15 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 80

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    The planet 40 Eridani a b is approximately sixteen point three light years away. She checked. It’s actually a very popular Google search these days.

    He keeps having these dreams about a person with no face. It's on the tip of his tongue, really.

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    14 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 42

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    Before the launch of the Hail Mary, Ryland Grace had a totally normal reaction to being asked to participate in a threesome. He didn't freak out at all. He was super cool and dignified about it, actually.

    Years later, on the journey to Erid, remembering this event leads to some interesting discussions with Rocky.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    “Oh, it’s a way for humans to tell each other they’re taken. To remember,” I say, popping a bunch more gummy bears into my mouth. Rocky makes a disgusted sound and I smile as I chew. “It’s just a nice way of showing they have someone they committed to.”

    Rocky freezes. I don’t notice for a good few seconds, not until I get the pressing sensation that he’s staring at me, his lack of eyes irrelevant.

    I turn to face him. He’s jittering, something like shaking from excitement or anger, I’m not sure.

    “Rocky?” I ask.

    Grace have ring,” he points, and oh no.Grace have mate? Why Grace no say!?

    I hold up my hands before he can get too excited, though I can already hear a familiar sound, a repeating joyful and confused song start to escape from him.

    “No, no, no!” he freezes again. Deflates, a little. I sigh and run a hand down my face. “It’s… complicated.”

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    14 Jun 2026

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    "Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.

    "You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."

    "And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."

    "Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"

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    12 Jun 2026

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    I fall back down, my head hits the floor. Floor? What am I doing on the floor?

    I look up and see the large yellow sphere again. There’s a red line attached to it. Is it… yeah, that’s my model. I am really on the floor.

    Something tells me I didn’t lie down for fun.

    OR: Ryland's Tuesday is turned upside down when his lesson gets interrupted by a crack in the speakers and a gunshot in the hallway.

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    11 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 17

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    Rocky’s first night watching Ryland Grace sleep, compared with Eva Stratt’s last.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Grace is dying. He and Rocky have made it all the way to Erid, but getting an emaciated, malnourished, mentally fragile Ryland Grace down to a planet designed to kill him is not a simple feat. Rocky desperate to bring his friend home with him, but Grace himself might become the biggest obstacle to seeing that dream realized.

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    09 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 13

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    Ryland Grace has just said goodbye to the best friend he's ever had, before the Hail Mary returns to Earth and the Blip-A returns to Erid. And for the first time in a life spent comfortably alone in crowds, he is truly, agonizingly lonely. Ahead of him, a journey of four years, two months, and eleven days returning to an Earth he's no longer sure he wants. All he knows right now is that he misses his only friend as the space between them widens.

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    08 Jun 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 64

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    “DuBois. Annie. You can’t send them.”

    Eva blinked.

    “Then what do you propose I do instead?”

    His chest stopped moving for a few seconds, as did his hands. He was still, all of a sudden. Motionless, his eyes still staring at her but the muscles around them contracting like he was fighting a deep instinct to squeeze them shut.

    He began to breathe again, shallowly. Then, he opened his mouth.

    “Send me.”

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    Ryland Grace has thought it all through. He is the only person truly qualified for the mission. He knows Stratt will agree to send him; he's expendable to her.

    So naturally, he makes sure they become friends before he leaves.

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    04 Jun 2026

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