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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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    03 Jun 2026

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    Grace has made recordings to send back to Earth about the Taumoeba solution. -– said I should do the same to help everyone understand what happened.
    There will be questions. It would help if those questions were answered before we arrive. And it would help to get the solution to Erid before we arrive so scientists can begin to work on solving problem as soon as possible.
    Problem of Taumoeba and… and problem of Grace.

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    14/?
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    31 May 2026

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    Once Rocky learned that Grace can whistle, he decided to teach him how to say some basic words in Eridian
    One day when they were close to Erid, Rocky falls ill and is unable to answer to the Eridian message

    Luckily, Grace could answer

    Too bad that Rocky didn't tell just how, juvenile he sounded when he spoke Eridian

    Or

    How Grace confused Eridians about his age

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    4/?
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    29 May 2026

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    It was supposed to be a normal day on the Vat.

    But then Stratt entered his lab with proof that sentient aliens existed, and were trying to communicate with humans.

    Oh, and they specifically wanted to speak with him.

    He needed more candy if he was going to make it through this.

    Rocky remembers meeting a leaky space blob who helped save the stars. Said space blob does not remember him. For now. Rocky will fix.

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    28 May 2026

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    Or, five times Ryland Grace desperately tried to cling to family (even when they all but threw him away), and one time family grabbed him and refused to let go.
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    AKA, someone’s going to have to hold Rocky back from fighting the entirety of the human race for how sad they made Grace.

    That someone will not be Adrian.

    Adrian wants a gun, statement.

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    15,093

    28 May 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 92

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    After Rocky and Grace land on Erid, Rocky is finally able to reunite with Adrian (though he has a LOT of anxiety surrounding it). He leaves the science team to tend to Grace in his weakened state and unbeknownst to Rocky, they're not as accommodating as promised.

     

    I read the book so there's some cannon from there, but the chase scene in the movie is very compelling. I also really like how the bio-dome is set up in the movie too- so there's a little bit of both! Also I like to jump around POVs, and I mark the changes with lines like this: ------. Hope you enjoy :)

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    28 May 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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    26 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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    Chapters:
    9/11
    Comments:
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    23 May 2026

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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

    or,

    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    Chapters:
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    17 May 2026

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    A Project Hail Mary AU in which Grace (for Plot Reasons) develops the ability to shift between his human body and an Eridian form at will a couple of weeks after the Adrian Incident.

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    17 May 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 52

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    “Are we friends?” Grace asks. The question doesn’t feel quite right. “Or, I guess… were we friends?”

    Yáo hums, thinking. “Yes,” he says, after a moment’s contemplation, “I would like to believe that we were - are - friends.”

    Grace turns his head, then, and Yáo knows exactly where he’s looking. “Are you two friends?”

    “Yes,” Yáo’s voice is lower this time, tinged with an emotion Grace can’t place. “We are good friends.”

    (Or;

    Grace and Yáo both wake up prematurely. Grace grapples with trying to remember his purpose. Yáo grapples with the absence of Ilyukhina.)

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    15 May 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 10

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    Colter Shaw realizes, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, that he may, for the first time in ten years, be in a little over his head.

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    Eva Stratt does not live in a world of "maybes." Her job, her people, her mission rely solely on absolutes. If Colter Shaw is the best at what he does than he is who she absolutely will get.

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    Ryland Grace is not a brave man. He's not an important man. So he can't for the life of him understand what these people want with him.

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    15 May 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 32

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    As new memories begin to surface, Grace finds it difficult to cope. Luckily, he's not alone.

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    14 May 2026

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    Astrophage, Ilyukhina thought, was not going to be the death of them all.

    But rather, one Ryland Grace and his new pet alien-rock friend.

    -----oO*Oo-----

    Olesya Ilyukhina and Commander Yáo Li-Jie survive their voyage into space. This changes everything.

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    Chapters:
    20/?
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    13 May 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 93

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    Colt Seavers raised his baby brother until the adults decided Ryland needed “stability” and sent Colt away.

    Four years later, Ryland is six, silent, traumatized, and in protective custody.

    Colt has spent years learning how to fall.

    For Ryland, he learns how to stay.

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    12 May 2026

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    Grace thought choosing Rocky over home was the easiest decision he ever made.

    Coming back to Earth is harder.

    As old memories resurface and the people around them begin to question the bond that kept them alive, Grace and Rocky find themselves fighting for something neither of them has ever had before: a future.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    17/28
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    12 May 2026

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    Grace and Rocky arrive at Erid. While Grace is more than happy to be one-step further from death, he has yet to confront his very human brain about it. Memories of his time on earth, near-death experiences in space, and being suddenly surrounded by giant alien spiders is a recipe for disaster. Luckily, Rocky is there to help him every step of the way.

    or

    The Eridians have a lot to learn about their new alien roomate.

    Language:
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    Words:
    30,605
    Chapters:
    15/?
    Comments:
    557
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    1,845
    Bookmarks:
    484
    Hits:
    26,480

    12 May 2026

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