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    Eva feels like the breath is knocked out of her lungs when the man walks in.

    Dirty blond hair. Blue eyes. Sort of like… if Ryland Grace was hit by a car several times. It was undeniably him.

    “So you’re Eva Stratt,” The man says gruffly, slamming both hands on her desk. He looked exactly like Ryland, it was terrifying. It felt like watching a ghost haunt her in real life.

    “You’re the crazy woman that sent my baby brother up into space. Let’s talk, yeah?”

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    Colt Seavers finds out his twin brother was sent on a suicide mission. He does not take it well.

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    09 May 2026

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    One unexpected benefit of Rocky's new xenonite suit is the discovery that Grace's panic is often soothed by Rocky's weight on his chest. It's come in handy during many nightmares and Rocky is ecstatic to have a new way to help. During Grace's latest nightmare, Rocky goes to put weight on his back to soothe him. It doesn't work. It really, really doesn't work.

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    09 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 74

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    After launching a Taumoeba probe to Venus, the old Hail Mary crew gets together to mourn and reminisce. Long ignored truths are finally spoken aloud.

    Inspired by Dan by Noah Kahan

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    09 May 2026

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    It’s been nearly 27 years since Eva Stratt forced Ryland Grace to board the Hail Mary and sent him off to his death for the greater good of mankind. Meanwhile, Eva and the Project Hail Mary team have been fighting a losing battle against the cooling sun—and their own demons—trying to make sure there were still people to be saved by the time the crew could send a solution home. Right on schedule, the beetles are returning to Earth, hopefully with the answer to saving the world. But Eva has something else to worry about; there’s every possibility Ryland Grace’s last words would be coming home, and all the time in the world couldn’t make her ready to face the consequences of her actions, or what will happen when her colleagues find out what she did to their friend.
    It was time to find out if it was worth it for her to sacrifice Grace, and her soul, to save humanity. And to find out if she was ready to face him after all these years…

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    09 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    Two-body problem: A problem of classical mechanics to calculate and predict the motion of two massive bodies that are orbiting each other in space.

    “Adrian, just a small warning: the Rocky that came back might not be the Rocky you know. It’s classified, but my friend is one of the comms specialist on the space elevator. They told me things. He acts… weird. He doesn’t sleep, and neglects the medical and psychological exams. I’m not sure he’s here, if you know what I mean."
    “Where is he, then?” Adrian’s musical notes come out discordant.
    “Wherever his human companion is stuck. If the alien dies, Rocky might never come down from the stars.”

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    08 May 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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    08 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 79

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    "I-" his words turn into a jumbled mess and I feel my claws clench. It's more than a little frustrating the way Grace keeps using new vocabulary without offering a translation for it. It probably has to do with grammar structure, but we've barely established +λ++ words.

    He can handle some grammatical sacrifices for the sake of ease, can't he? I definitely have.

    Grace presses one of his dull claws to his carapace. "-sleep now. I come back in +∀ +λ++ seconds."

    He takes another (clumsy) step backward and this time I do push my carapace into the barrier. He can't leave, the tunnel is too long for me to hear him whenever he's back on his spaceship. He's going to vanish and take that steady percussion beat within his chest with him. What if something happens to him while he's on his ship and he never returns? I need need need him.

    Erid needs needs needs him.

    "I observe."

    Grace is so caught up with making himself look trustworthy that he forgets aliens might be able to lie just as well as he can.

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    Rocky lies about Eridian culture. What's Grace gonna do? Call an alien a liar?

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    08 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 58

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    It should have been a perfectly safe stunt, they'd done it four times already, but something had gone wrong. So wrong, and now Jody was sitting in a hospital waiting room, waiting for an update, for some evidence that Colt was going to be ok. Waiting for Colt's twin to answer her phone calls, he always came to check in on his brother if a stunt went wrong, always.

    So why wasn't he answering...

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    08 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 73

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    Eridian kids are entertained and fascinated by how lightly humans sleep.

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    08 May 2026

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    “…the body emits light almost exclusively in the Petrova wavelength. And after extensive calculations, its trajectory almost completely fits as if coming from the direction of Sol.

    The realization hit Grace all at once.

    No.

    No way."

     

    Grace has a whole life built on Erid, and has a lot of feels about potentially meeting humans after 25 years.

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    08 May 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 86

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    Yáo registered the yellow first. 

    Bright yellow, the color of a hazard sign - it was Dr. Grace's familiar raincoat, unmistakable even at distance, the man wearing it moving fast across the open ground that separated the administrative buildings from the interior fence line.

    Grace was running.

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    08 May 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 14

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    "You were the correct choice," Stratt said to the stars, and her jaw tightened, a brief, almost imperceptible shift, before she drew in another breath, "the only choice."

    The words were not cathartic. They did not change anything.

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    08 May 2026

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    They learn of what happened in the same way: secondhand, delayed - the event already in the past by the time it reached them.

    Or - Grace and Colt both learn of what happened to the other through news broadcasts, too far away to do anything about it.

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    08 May 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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    08 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace was, at long last, adapting on Erid—even thriving—until he wasn’t. There came a tipping point when it became clear to the Eridians that it was time to send him back home to Earth.

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    07 May 2026

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    Rocky picks the xenonite weaver back up. “It is fine. No more surprise noise.”

    I laugh. “Well, hold on, what qualifies as a surprise noise?”
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    Rocky discovers a small selection of variety of noises that humans are able to make.

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    07 May 2026

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    After surviving an assassination attempt by an extremist group hellbent on ensuring the Petrova Task Force’s failure, Ryland Grace gets appointed a bodyguard.

    A rather familiar one, at that.

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    07 May 2026

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    Tucked and hidden away in the bottom of the personal storage container is a simple manila envelope with Grace's name on it. He certainly didn’t put this here, but he has a good guess of who probably did.

    It’s just another reminder of home and all the mixed feelings that go with it; just another thing he’s not exactly sure how to handle right now.

    Thankfully, he doesn’t have to do it alone.

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    07 May 2026

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    Grace’s first days on Erid are not easy. In fact, he’s so sick and wounded from starvation, scurvy, and an almost-crash that he barely remembers it. What he does remember is the betrayal and pain that he experienced on Earth.

    Lucky for him, his best friend left him in good hands. Now if he could only figure out who that is and if he’s safe with them.

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    07 May 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 90

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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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    06 May 2026

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