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    Mark Watney has survived 118 sols on Mars, and he wouldn’t exactly say it’s been a cakewalk, but he only has about three more years of listening to disco to go (ugh) before Ares IV picks him up and take him home. But when something crashes on the Martian surface only a few kilometers from the Hab, NASA wants him to leave the safety of his little home on the Martian prairie to go investigate…what could possibly go wrong?

    Ryland Grace has survived a long time in space and almost a decade on Erid, but the anxiety of not knowing if the beetles made it to Earth finally drives him to try the dangerous journey back home, and Rocky and Adrian come with him. Everything was actually going pretty good…until a horrible accident leaves them hurtling through space (and time) with no choice but to crash land on the wrong planet.

    How is Watney going to deal with the unexpected company (and their weird secretiveness over why they were in space)? Is Grace going to be able to adjust to being around another human being again? And how are Rocky and Adrian going to handle the uncertainty of a reception to an Earth that’s never heard of aliens before?

    More importantly…how the fuck is NASA going to get them all home alive?

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    16 Jun 2026

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    It's a remarkable fluke that Earth has managed: sending one scientist into space on one-way trip only to discover him back in the solar system after three decades, and sending an entirely different astronaut for a circuit up to Mars and back just for disaster to strike and he's left stranded alone on the planet. Wilder still that the timelines align, and both space-farers end up on the same ship back home.

    Or:
    Project Hail Mary x The Martian crossover because the parallels go crazy and I needed to think thoughts that were not just spiraling about PHM so I rewatched The Martian and roped my other favourite scifi main character into it too. Featuring the dumbest fic title I have ever come up with.

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    15 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 46

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    Ryland Grace spent four years at MIT hating Mark Watney with every fiber of his academically exhausted soul.

    Mark was loud, reckless, impossible to ignore, and somehow good at everything without even trying. Grace was neurotic, emotionally repressed, and one failed experiment away from becoming a supervillain. Naturally, they became rivals immediately.

    Then Rebecca — Grace’s girlfriend — got tired of dating a physics paper with anxiety and dumped him for Mark.

    Which only made the hatred worse.

    Six years later, humanity discovers Astrophage, the sun starts dying, and Grace suddenly finds himself recruited into the most important scientific project in human history. During a conversation with coworkers, he casually mentions his old college rival — only to learn Mark Watney was left behind on Mars and is presumed dead.

    Grace reacts to this information… concerningly badly.

    More to come.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Gosh, I hope you can pick this signal up. It took Rocky and I weeks to fix and calibrate the radio transmitter. You won’t be able to get an answer to me until years from now, so I’m just gonna operate like you’re listening. Get ready to hear from me a lot, because as much as I love the one guy I have here to talk to, he doesn’t always appreciate my jokes. You know, cultural context and stuff.

    Earth begins to receive messages from Dr. Ryland Grace, and eventually sends a few back.

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    03 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 57

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    “In Peter’s defense, he couldn’t just ignore the problem! I mean how can Spider-Man protect the little guy if there’s no more little guy!?”

    Or, Peter Parker is sent to space! (Featuring Ryland Grace…and a spider rock?)

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    02 Jun 2026