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To Leave A Mark (At the Beach, In Every Life) by eridianenby (wholisticleeme)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
19 Jun 2026
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Ryland wakes up on a planet 16.5 light years from home with nearly 2 decades worth of memories missing. He’s done incredible things, or so he’s told, but all of that is overshadowed by the painful process of remembering. There’s a lot of jagged edges around events from his life that he wishes remained buried. But for the first time, Ryland has the opportunity to pick up pieces previously left untouched, and create a stronger foundation for the new relationships in his one-of-a-kind, wild ride of a life.
(Plenty of angst/hurt/comfort, flashbacks, etc. with fluff and lovely bits holding it together in between)
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02 Jul 2026
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Half-way through the trip back to Erid, Rocky falls ill. Grace scrambles to find out what's wrong.
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01 Jul 2026
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One Grace-sleep is not so long.
It is not “night,” but Grace calls it night, and so Rocky does too. One human night. One third of one human day. One three-hundred-thousandth of Rocky’s life so far.
This is what Rocky tells himself. He folds up on his xenonite shelf above Grace’s sleeping area, and he listens, and he fiddles with his clock, and he tells himself that it is not so long.
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Rocky has lived through the deaths of many of his friends. He does not want to lose Grace.
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01 Jul 2026
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Project Long Shot by IvyLee
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 Jun 2026
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The lives of the crew of the Long Shot are statistically ridiculous. They've travelled over sixteen light-years to answer a three-decade-old distress call from a dying planet. They expected to find any number of things upon arrival at 40 Eridani, but being greeted by a human voice certainly wasn't on the list.
Dr Ryland Grace says they're welcome. He says the problem has already been solved, and everything's fine, and so, in fact, is Earth. But all they know about Ryland Grace is that he left on a suicide mission ten years before they launched. And they're not so sure they should be taking a dead man at face value.
OR: The Eridians have learned to safely host a human, despite every barrier of language and instinct. Now they just need to do it with seven more. At least, this time, they have Grace's help, right?
(This fic is part of a series but will stand alone.)
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- Part 3 of The Gift Receipt Rockimatic Universe
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26 Jun 2026
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Returned in Kind by IvyLee
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
16 Jun 2026
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Rocky took ‘Grace’ – a word in a language he can’t speak, with a meaning that doesn’t directly translate – and gave his human friend a name, one with weight and significance, which conveyed exactly who Grace was to the people of Erid. Then, to keep things professional, he did it a second time.
Grace isn’t even mad about it any more. He just wishes he hadn’t waited so long to return the favour.
(Set after 'False Friends'. Can stand alone. Context: Grace has landed on Erid and recovered from most of his hang-ups around that. Oh, and the malnutrition.)
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- Part 2 of The Gift Receipt Rockimatic Universe
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26 Jun 2026
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False Friends by IvyLee
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 Jun 2026
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In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that sounds similar to a word in your own, but differs significantly in meaning. No word in any Eridian language could possibly be mistaken for English. But Erid absolutely has false friends.
In his right mind, Grace would easily identify the mistaken assumptions inhibiting his integration on Erid. They are:
1: A molecular biologist and a sapient rock can cobble together translation software that reflects the etymological nuance of an entire alien language.
2: Eridians are enough like humans to have an area 51 and look forward to using it.Unfortunately, Grace hasn’t been in his right mind in years.
Or: a ‘Return to Erid’ story where Grace struggles to touch down alone.
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- Part 1 of The Gift Receipt Rockimatic Universe
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26 Jun 2026
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my grace by some_pomegranate_tea
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
31 May 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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26 Jun 2026
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I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road by Moonshine_Dan, Synthyk (Moonshine_Dan)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
21 Jun 2026
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You are profoundly alone. You have been for a while. Suddenly, you aren't anymore, and you are struggling to be normal about it. Pooling strengths and weaknesses with the strange creature on its explosive-atmosphere ship might just be the only way to save both of your stars, but it might also lead to more than just strictly scientific discoveries, and neither of you are sure how to feel about that.
OR: The universe's most unlikely meet-cute.
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22 Jun 2026
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silence more musical than any song by hansdevice
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 Apr 2026
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Hours later, Rocky wriggles awake. The pain has eased. His heartbeats have slowed. His cells are still functioning. There is no falling apart. He can hear the scritch-scratch of his five claws on Xenonite. He can hear the machines, humming their false song. He can hear the silent expanse of space. The distant stars. His friends, dead in the hull. And the building feeling, deep in every cell — every fibre of his body — that something is so incredibly wrong.
Rocky knows this disease. Exhaustion. And all alone in space, there is no cure.
It is a primal requirement that Eridians sleep only under the trusting gaze of their companions. Rocky spends forty-six years alone in space.
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22 Jun 2026
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The Chain (Keeps Us Together) by ifonlyiwaswittier
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 May 2026
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“If you could be any astronomical object, what kind of astronomical object would you be and why?”
“Rocky cannot be astronomical object. Rocky can only be Eridian.”
“Humor me, pal, I’m dying of boredom over here.”(or, snapshots of the fourteen days that Rocky and Grace spent making the chain in orbit around Adrian)
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22 Jun 2026
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the needs of the many by Goldmonger
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 Jun 2026
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Today is a good day. I want to keep it that way.
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22 Jun 2026
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three's company by Goldmonger
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
17 Apr 2026
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“Rocky,” I say sharply. The irritation feels unpleasant inside me, foreign like a toxin.
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22 Jun 2026
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better than your best by Goldmonger
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
15 May 2026
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“Rocky, I’m here, okay? Come back to me, pal, please.”
Of course I will, I think, drawn to that voice, that strange, wobbling voice, which I care about without knowing exactly why, and I should – it makes me angry, not knowing – I should know –
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22 Jun 2026
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"It was during one of my missions that I said I wouldn’t feel too upset if Supervisor Leonide died in front of me. Then she actually did die in front of me, and it turns out I got a little upset."
Janity's father appears to be hunting her down. Murderbot doesn't feel responsible for her, and is helping for completely unrelated reasons.
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- Part 1 of FEMININOMENON
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21 Jun 2026
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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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21 Jun 2026
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The data was fascinating. I immediately realise it was the wrong thing to say. All of you is fascinating. Now I've overcorrected and been too honest. I cannot determine how to rectify this situation. All I know is that my SecUnit hasn't been this far from me in the feed since we first met and I hate myself for causing this reaction.
ART admits to Murderbot that it submitted a research proposal about Murderbot's governor module when they met.
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18 Jun 2026
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Accident Waiting to Happen by constantconfusion14
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
28 Apr 2026
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Within the tight quarters of the Hail Mary, misunderstandings, arguments, and accidents are bound to happen. It's especially unfortunate when all three happen at once.
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16 Jun 2026
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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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15 Jun 2026
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what exists beyond, beyond, beyond by tardigradeschool
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
16 May 2026
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"Many stages in Eridian reproductive process. Rocky Adrian laying cycles finally sync up recently. So, Rocky Adrian think finally time for eggs. Adrian lay five eggs, very good. Only, strange thing happen. Rocky only lay one egg."
“Oh,” I say. “That’s unusual, right?”
"Very," Rocky hums.
My throat tightens. "Does that mean there's something wrong? Are you sick?"
Rocky makes a gesture I usually interpret as "not exactly". "Not sick," he says. "But doctors still worry. When Eridian start to make fewer eggs, this usually means laying period of life is over soon. Rocky very young for this. Rocky supposed to be in ideal time of life for laying. Rocky younger than Adrian, even." He shifts on three of his feet. Already, my mind is racing ahead, wondering -- "Doctors told Rocky to ask Grace, is this radiation side effect, question?"
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15 Jun 2026
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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15 Jun 2026