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Home Is Where We Are(n't) by ChubsDeuce
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
15 Jun 2026
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Upon discovering a wormhole that cuts travel time between Earth and Erid down to just two years, the two planets want to negotiate an alliance.
To ensure a smooth process, their shared saviors will act as ambassadors - after 36 years, the Hail Mary finally returns to earth.
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16 Jun 2026
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Memory by inanimateobjective
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
15 Jun 2026
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Good morning, Dr. Grace! The time is currently 04:52 A.M., and we are approximately 11.9 light-years from Earth. Welcome aboard the Hail Mary! I am E.D.I.T. - Emergency Directive Interference & Transfer, your guide to the cosmos. Do you remember how you got here?
Ryland Grace wakes up onboard the Hail Mary, and he doesn’t need to try and figure out what he’s doing, or who he is. E.D.I.T. is right there with him, ready to make sure everything goes according to plan.
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15 Jun 2026
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A new us has begun by ChaoticEldritchEntity
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 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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The Space Between by Saereneth
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
16 Jun 2026
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How old was he, even? He’d been thirty-five when he left Earth — would that make him seventy-five, or forty-six, or forty-two once he returned?
Grace is returning to Earth, but what will that mean for him?
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14 Jun 2026
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It's Worth It by HulkJanitor
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
15 Jun 2026
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Grace and Rocky are on their way to Erid when they encounter a strange terrestrial vessel that has somehow made its way to space. The single occupant is alive and Grace and Rocky rescue him, but they are then faced with the challenge of gaining this stranger's trust and dealing with the contamination he brought with him.
*slaps roof of fic* This bad boy can fit so many near-death experiences in it! But also friendship! And fucking (eventually)!
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"What do you WANT?"
“I just want you to live!” Grace threw up his hands in exasperation “Is that so wrong? Is that so hard to believe?!—” he lowered his hands and quieted his voice. It took enormous effort. “I just want you to stay alive, and I need you to just sit still so you don’t die.”
The man’s expression dissolved from roiling rage to bafflement. There was something else too though. Grace could see cogs spinning behind the man’s eyes. Something about that answer had stuck.
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13 Jun 2026
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I'm with the science team! by lemonadelesbian69
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
16 Jun 2026
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Disaster strikes the Hail Mary on its way back to Earth. The taumoeba escape their breeding tanks, and make it to the fuel lines. Stranded in space just outside the Tau Ceti system, Dr Ryland Grace can't do anything. He can't go save Rocky, he can't go save Earth. Exhausted, out of options, and distraught, he fills the ship with nitrogen, and takes his final breath.
Next thing he knows, his eyes flutter open in his San Francisco apartment. It's a year before ArcLight touches down on Earth, but he remembers the Petrova Task Force.
He's not the only one.OR: Time-Travel Fix-It AU but it's not just Grace who came back in time.
OR: My first time writing fanfic since my wattpad days as a preteen be niceys to me
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11 Jun 2026
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Drops of Jupiter by TheTearThatHangs
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
15 Jun 2026
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Dr Captain Ryland Grace returns to an Earth that had long designated him “history”; 58 years old, and with a body that ached in vicious revenge, Grace wanted to take Rocky and Adrian through the wonders of Planet Earth before his time came.
Rocky and Adrian would very much like it if Grace stopped referencing his mortality, and are finding Earth about as peculiar and spectacular as the man the planet gave them.
Earth is pleasantly surprised to see their intergalactic neighbours at their doorstep, and would very much like to confiscate Grace from Rocky for scientific study, because how the fuck was he still alive.
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09 Jun 2026
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“I'm an apex predator too, remember,” I say, and Rocky and Adrian completely stop their conversation and twist their carapaces around to me.
On Earth, Rocky says, and there’s an undertone of amusement to his voice. Not on Erid.
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08 Jun 2026
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camello patagonico by FulminateTheSun
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
08 Jun 2026
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Rocky lived his happily ever after with Grace and Adrian. Until he died. And then woke up a week before the Blip A was meant to launch. He makes a few last minute changes.
Eva Stratt is not having a good day. It was hard enough dealing with the aliens trying to eat her sun. Now she has to deal with the other aliens that know much more about her and Earth than she's comfortable with. And they also claim to have the answer to the Astrophage problem, provided she's willing to hand Ryland Grace to them.
Grace wishes he could stop getting 'promoted' with no option to say no. At least his new job has better hours, if you could ignore the whole being stuck in space on an alien vessel thing.
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07 Jun 2026
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Live, Laugh, Laser Cannons by glitterinsect
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
06 Jun 2026
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“I am Groot.”
“♩♫♪♩♩♫♪♬♩!” Rocky sings.
“I am Groot?”
“♩♫♩♩♬.”
“I am Groot!”
“♫♩♫♪♩♬♫♩!”
Grace doesn’t understand a single word of what Rocky is saying. Or Groot, for that matter. “What is happening right now?!”
Two instances of cosmic anomalies bring two different spaceships to the same universe. When both crews become stranded on a hostile planet, searching for a way home, they find they’ll have to work together to survive.
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Grace is seriously out of his depth here, but he does enjoy studying all the new alien life. Rocket is teaching Rocky, his new engineer buddy, all kinds of fun things. Quill and Mantis are glad to be back with their family (even if they are stuck on a deadly planet that's trying to kill them…). Drax hates the colour pink, Groot hates the acid rain, and Nebula just wants to keep all these idiots alive.Bookmarked by ArbitraryCategories
06 Jun 2026
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"I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."
"Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"
"Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.
"Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."
"Let's not joke."
or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller
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05 Jun 2026
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The Wire Mother by nopaintjustpain
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
24 May 2026
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I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.
Right up until Rocky asks another question.
“When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”
Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”
Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.
“Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”
I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.
“When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”
I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.
“Grace. When last time, question.”
I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.
“Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”
I can taste grass.
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AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.
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- Part 1 of Ave Maria
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05 Jun 2026
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Rocky & The Portable Earth Thinking Machine: A Love Story by Saffronthread
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
05 Jun 2026
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Consolation Prize??? by Des98
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
25 Apr 2026
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Fact 1 everyone on the carrier knows? that Ryland Grace does not 'do' relationships of the romantic or sexual variety (well, everyone except Lokken, but she's deluding herself a little bit).
Fact 2 that everyone on the carrier knows? Eva Stratt is also yearning for her first officer, she's just a lot better at hiding it.
Fact 3 that NO ONE on the carrier knows? They're all idiots. Except Yao. He totally saw this coming. -
The Falls Guys (+ An Eridian) by Wenber
Fandoms: The Fall Guy (2024), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
14 Jun 2026
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As Colt Seavers is driving to Tom Ryder's loft, he nearly hits someone on the way there. When he finally sees who he nearly hit, his world will never be the same.
Because the man he nearly hit looks exactly like him. A carbon copy, if you will.
And what does this carbon copy of Colt Seavers do when he sees him? He runs.
And maybe Colt Seavers will regret chasing his doppelganger down when a 400-pound rock spider comes to his doppelganger's rescue.
(A story where Grace and Rocky have accidentally shucked themselves into Colt Seaver's world during the movie and get unwillingly tangled within its plot.)
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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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02 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
15 May 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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01 Jun 2026
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Observations and Applications of Eridian Child-Rearing, by Dr. Ryland Grace by doodlegirll
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
28 May 2026
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A little grey arm with the tiniest claw, sticking out of the left most egg. The arm is waving slowly, as if saying “Hello, a little help here?”
“Movement detected.” Mary says again.
Oh. Shit.
The eggs! They’re hatching early!
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Past Lives in the Stars by tinallie
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
14 Jun 2026
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Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.
“Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”
Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.
The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.
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28 May 2026
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Finders Keepers by emphasis_on_ghost_writer
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
15 Jun 2026
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The humans threw Grace away. Grace, who worked so hard to save them, who came back for Rocky when he realized the taomoeba would eat through Rocky's ship. Grace, who gave up his chance to go home to save Erid too.
And then Rocky finds out exactly how Grace ended up in space.
They're not giving him back now. Grace will always have a place on Erid where he's beloved and cherished the way he should be, even if it takes Grace a while to believe he's worth that. Rocky may or may not have plans to fix up the Hail Mary for the trip back anyways- there were a few things they wanted to say directly to Stratt's face.
Updates every other day bc i have no chill and can't be bored
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28 May 2026