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Bad dreams suck. Grace wakes up from a nightmare of being on the Hail Mary, which is utterly impossible, but his throat hurts like he really did have a tube pulled out of it.
Turns out, he wasn't the only one to have that dream. Which was even more impossible than him actually being on a ship that's not even fully built.
aka A movie react fic where everyone sees the film in dreams.
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01 Jun 2026
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delightful
good teammates for grace
grace is much smarter than he thinks and everyone around him knows it
others worrying about how grace doesn't seem to see that people care for him/that he is not expendable/cynicism
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Oh, Grace still had lab time. He was blacklisted from pretty much anywhere, but there were always labs that were open to anyone who was willing to rent them. He spent a lot of summers doing his own research. Just because nobody would ever bother to read it didn’t mean he couldn’t make his own discoveries. It just wasn’t something he could do all that often. Teachers didn’t get paid all that great. But he still put the effort in.
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“Dr. Grace, I’m not sure if you realize this, but you are a brilliant man. You are the leading expert in astrophage. You have a knack for understanding it, so to speak. The things you have come up with and figured out take leaps of logic that I do not understand. But understanding such things is why I have you here.”
She tapped a few things into her tablet. “If I had my way, you would be my first choice, simply because if there is something with the astrophage that are keeping them from dimming Tau Ceti, I believe you would find it.”
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“Look at how he was in there. Like figuring out what the message meant, he acted like it was simple.”
[.] She adored Grace, he was so smart and just didn’t seem to see it. The wild thing was she knew he thought he was smart enough, but she knew he was smarter than he realized.
[.] There was a reason Grace was considered the front of the field of speculative astrobiology, even years after he left academia. His paper had smacked a lot of people in the face, but she was pretty sure that he intended it to.
If Grace had wanted to stay and work as a researcher, someone would have taken him. But it was pretty obvious that he was done with all of it.
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“-You- are the leading expert in the field of astrophage. With only a day or two head start, you learned more and have developed better and more solid theories and facts than anyone else. You have an almost innate knack for dealing with them. [.] Your own range exceeds his, more and more each day that you are my science lead. Simply because you do not just take what you are told and parrot it back to me. [.] You take the information you are given and double check it. To double check, you -learn- about the subject. That has been made obviously clear already in these dreams. [.] You are running a mission by yourself that was designed for three people. Every time you have run into an issue, you have worked out a solution. [.] I believe that without you, Dr. Grace, this project would fail. I am not as good with people as most. But they come to you with their issues. They trust you to fix any problems. -I- trust you to fix any problems you see, or at least explain to me what the problem is. [.] I am the fist, the hammer. I make it happen, no matter how much I have to beat things into position. You help soften those blows. [.] These dreams, Ryland, only tell me what I already knew. Without Grace, our Hail Mary fails.”
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Grace was very, very good at weaponizing his nature, disarming many. It got the point that she had actually heard people talking about him, where they simply could not accept that the awkward and charming Dr. Ryland Grace they knew had once called a man a staggering waste of carbon and burned his bridges so thoroughly that no reputable school would touch him.
Well, when one implied that pretty much every major figure in your field was a fool, it usually went poorly. Fools they were, but they were fools who had been in the game for far longer and had many more contacts.
Even with that, and Stratt was very well aware that it was a very intentional set of bridge burning, Dr. Ryland Grace was still the first name mentioned when she was looking for a scientist to study the astrophage. Usually followed by ‘too bad he’s left the sciences.’ If they were charitable. Lokken had made it clear what most of the others thought.
It only helped prove that they would be a waste of her time. So she had discarded them and gone for the best. -
One Letter Off by Hero_Iron_Dad
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, The Fall Guy (2024)
12 Jun 2026
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Tom Ryder is really stubborn when it comes to the things he wants. This caused quite a bit of embarrassment and awkwardness for a certain doctor from the Astofags, and all because of a single Friday movie night on a research ship.
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Stratt's VAT's the crew learns about the secret/past of their awkward scientist Dr. Ryland Grace.
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14 Jun 2026
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lol
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Shapiro read from the screen: "Across Every Distance. Tom Ryder's most personal project yet, a sweeping romantic epic about the distances we travel and the people who make the journey worth it. Breathtaking practical stunts, haunting original score. Critics are calling it career-defining."
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The plot was involving ... a scientist working on something classified and important, a love story interrupted by circumstance and distance, Tom Ryder doing what Tom Ryder apparently did best, which was looking at people like they were the answer to questions he'd spent years asking.
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Grace had gone very carefully, very deliberately still, in the manner of a small animal that has decided the best response to a predator is to stop existing as a perceivable entity.
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"Do you know Tom Ryder?"
Grace ate a piece of popcorn. This was, Yao thought, not the response of a man who did not know Tom Ryder.
"...Define know."
"Oh my god," said Shapiro.
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"Tom Ryder is... my ex-boyfriend," he said.
Shapiro made a sound like she had swallowed her own tongue.
"We dated for..." Grace stopped. He started again. "We were together for a while. It ended. I ended it. I thought that was ... I thought we were both on the same page about that." He looked at the paused film. The frozen frame showed Tom Ryder holding the fictional Ryland's face in both hands with an expression of devastating sincerity. "Apparently there was a page I missed."
"How long ago?" Lokken asked.
"Four years, roughly."
"And he made a film."
"He made a film."
"About you."
"About a character named Ryland Gradce who wears my clothes and works in a lab and has my conversation habits, yes." Grace's voice was admirably flat. "Yes."
"The title," Dubois said, with the tone of someone piecing things together as he spoke. "Across Every Distance. You're... we're on a ship, in the middle of the ocean."
"I'm aware of where I am, yes."
"He's talking about..."
"I understand what he's doing, DuBois."
"That's either incredibly romantic or quite alarming," said Lokken.
"You said it ended," Yao said carefully. "Did he ... did he know that?"
Grace ran a hand through his hair. "I told him it was over. He said he didn't accept that. I thought he was ... I thought that would pass. People say dramatic things. I had the conversation, I thought it was done." He looked at the screen again, at the poster-perfect image of Tom Ryder looking at the fictional version of him with his whole heart on his face. "He didn't accept it."
"He really didn't," Ilyukhina said, with a complicated mix of expressions that seemed to contain both deep sympathy and genuine amusement fighting for dominance.
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"My twin. Colt." Grace said it like the name was something he'd said many thousands of times. "He works in film. Has done for years. He's ... he works on the physical side of things. Stunts." He paused. "Specifically, he's Tom Ryder's stunt double."
The room went so quiet that Yao could hear the ship.
"Your twin brother..." Dubois said very slowly, "...is the stunt double for Tom Ryder."
"Has been for about fifteen years."
"Which means your brother and Tom Ryder look..."
"Colt and I are identical, yes." Grace said it with the particular patience of a man who had answered this exact implicit question many times in his life. "So yes. Approximately. With some differences. Colt has better hair and he's slightly taller and he's never once tried to explain the carbon cycle to anyone at a party."
"And your brother invited you to set," Yao said.
"He used to. Before all..." Grace gestured broadly at the ship around them. "Before. He'd call me up and say come and watch, it'll be good for you, Ry, you spend too much time in the lab, come and watch someone pretend to fall off a building." He smiled slightly.
"He wasn't wrong about the lab thing. I went a few times. Colt introduced me to people. Tom and I got talking."
"Over what?" Shapiro asked.
Grace looked at her. There was a pause. "He asked me what I was working on. I told him. He asked a follow-up question. I kept expecting him to stop being interested, and he didn't." Another pause. "He never did, actually. Annoying trait."
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"'I made this for someone specific. He knows who he is. I hope he watches it and understands that some distances aren't as final as you think they are.'"
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"Colt apparently left three messages with my communications office this morning. He says to tell you that he tried to warn you, that this is what Tom is like, and that you should have taken his calls when you still had a working phone signal." She paused. "He also said, and I'm quoting directly, 'tell Ry I told him so approximately six years ago and I want it on the record.'" -
When The Devil Shows Up On Your Dashboard Again by TheOneWithTheBook
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
12 Jun 2026
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Abbey @abbeygabby
I swear, if I watch this press conference and NASA announce Mark Watney’s DEAD, I am going to contribute to some statistics #NASAANNOUNCMENTOr,
The internet has a lot of thoughts about the fact Mark Watney is being picked up from Mars by an undead middle-school teacher and his new alien best bud
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- Part 2 of Most Of The Time, We Don't Have Anyone
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Volunteers... Of A Sort. by One_Real_Wrimonkey
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
22 Apr 2026
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Yao was a principled man, glad to be working with a crew of brave volunteers from all over the world who came together to save the stars. It's probably for the best he doesn’t find out how must of the crew were recruited.
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Aka, Yao finds out how most of the science and engineering team were recruited by Stratt.Series
- Part 5 of My PHM fics
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02 Jun 2026
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:D
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For a second, it looked like Dr Grace didn’t know what to say to that, before he twisted in his chair slightly to address the rest of the room.
“Ok, raise your hand if you’re here because Stratt showed up at your home or work one day and told you that you were coming here.”
There were a few errant chuckles around the room, but everyone except the astronauts raised their hands. Everyone. Every single member of their leadership team.
That could not mean what he thought it meant, he had to be misunderstanding something here. The implication that none of them had volunteered, that they had simply been assigned or brought here or something, that didn’t sit right. It couldn’t be that.
“Ok, wait, correction,” Dr Redell stood as he spoke, “show of hands who’s here because Director Stratt and Dr Grace showed up at your work or home one day and told you, you were coming here?”
That garnered a few more laughs and Dr Grace ran his hand down his face.
Almost half of the hands stayed up.
“In my defence I didn’t usually know what those meetings were ahead of time.”
“Oh, sure, no idea.”
“No really, I was mainly there to make sure the science you were suggesting was sound before we brought you aboard, I didn’t need to be briefed for that, I had my own work. Frankly most of the time I was a little annoyed I was there and not, you know, doing my actual work.”
In any other situation, he might have laughed. Dr Grace was, of course, exaggerating with his statement, though the humour seemed to have bled from the room slightly. As the Director’s second and the head of the Astrophage Research Taskforce, he had many duties to balance, just because he preferred the work of the latter did not mean he could skip the work related to the former. Though of course he knew that, hence why he’d gone to those meetings. It was no secret that Dr Grace preferred the research work to the admin, and he complained of it often.
“Wait wait wait,” Ilyukhina was scanning every face in the room as she spoke, “you all were brought on like this. Just told you were coming? No choice.”
“Wasn't like we could say no.” Dr Leclerc asked, covering a half amused, half disbelieving smile with a gulp of coffee.
“I didn’t even think of trying to say no.” Dimitri added.
“I tried.” all eyes turned to Dr Grace as he said it, “She came to my school and asked me to come with, I said no. Didn’t stick, clearly."
“Wait, seriously?”
He had to agree with Hatch’s sentiment. That just didn’t sound... right. If he had declined to be a part of the project, how had he ended up here, on this boat, a part of the mission. A key part of the mission. It did not sound as though he had simply changed his mind, but the alternative, no, surely not.
“You think because I was Stratt’s first that I was immune to that treatment?”
He was half expecting Ilyukhina to make a joke about Dr Grace being Director Stratt’s first, but glancing briefly to her, she seemed just as stunned as he was.
“Would have thought you’d have jumped at the chance to get back into a lab when she offered it.” Dr Lokken’s tone was light, but Li-Jei had heard the history there, “Prove your theory right.”
“No, I, like you said, spent the last few years teaching, I hadn’t been in a proper lab in years. When she came to the school and offered, I was sure there were people more suited to this than me, so I told her that and walked away. The FBI picked me up before I even got though my front door, bundled me into a car, then into a lab. Didn't even get the chance to write up a lesson plan for the substitute...”
He trailed off like that was the worst part of this whole thing. Not that he’d been kidnapped, kidnapped, but that he was somehow failing his students by being here. Director Stratt had taken him from his life, he hadn’t been given the option. He was glad Dr Grace was looking at Dr Lokken, it gave him a moment to look to his team to see if they had truly heard what he had heard. That there was no misunderstanding there. Unfortunately, it seemed they had, and that like him, they weren’t entirely sure they had processed it yet either.
“Oh my god,” so that was why he was looking at Dr Lokken, “you mean she was serious when she said if I didn’t come the gendarmerie would pick me up?”
“Oh yeah, that wasn’t a bluff, she meant that.”
Dr Lamai ran a hand through her hair as Dr Lokken stared into her coffee like it held the secrets of life. In fact, several of them seemed taken aback by this. -
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When Eva Stratt called an unexpected meeting, nobody expected it to be about a message from off-planet, from an alien species who wished to share knowledge.
Especially when the voice translating the message was Ryland Grace's.