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    Fire Song by

    Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)  

    20 Jun 2026

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    “Your life is very short, Saviour-Grace. The Elders have thrummed extensively about your future on Erid, and we offer you our most sacred of ceremonies.” He gestures to the xenonite-encased stones arrayed in front of him. “Are you aware of our creation myths?”

    OR

    In which Grace participates in a sacred Eridian ceremony that he's sure has no chance of actually working. It would be rude to refuse, after all. There's no way that it'll actually do anything to him...

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    19 Jun 2026

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    The Grace Period by

    Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir  

    21 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace saved Earth. He saved Erid. He was supposed to die a hero somewhere between the stars.

    Instead, he kept living.

    As the years pass on Erid, Ryland finds himself caught in a strange kind of grace period: a life he was never meant to have, in a body and mind slowly losing the battle against time. Far from Earth, alongside Rocky, Adrian and the world that became his second home, Grace has to answer a question no mission training could prepare him for:

    What happens after the hero survives?

     

    or Grace learning to be an Eridian

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    For once, Rocky didn’t comment on my leaking face. Didn’t call me gross or make fun of me otherwise. So I did it for him.
    “Yeah,” I sniffed, half-laughing through it. “Humans leak, ew.”
    Because, well—
    This might be the last time I ever cried.
    “No, Grace leak as much as want. Is okay!” Rocky rushed in immediately, all urgency and overlapping chords.
    “Well, you weren’t going to, so someone else had to do it.”
    He paused. “No understand. Is joke, question?”
    “Yeah,” I said, sniffling a little. “It’s a joke.”
    “Still no understand humor.”

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    19 Jun 2026

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    Red String Theory by

    Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)  

    16 Jun 2026

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    The Eridians investigate a signal coming from a small nearby moon. There, they find their own leaky space blob. Meanwhile, in the relative sense, Grace and Rocky set course for Erid.

    Their paths intersect.

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    That time Adrian and Simon spot the xenonite-modified Hail Mary hurtling past 40 Eridani C and assume Rocky has been kidnapped.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    by the Grace of god by

    Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)  

    04 Jun 2026

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    "You had prayed for an angel, and the great song of the universe sent you an alien."

     

    OR: Alone on the ship, Rocky begs the universe for salvation. One day, it answers.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    For human, grossly underqualified (For canine, grossly overqualified) by

    Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)  

    06 Jun 2026

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    "Something else?" Adrian turns their body in curiosity. They consider the reality of meeting another lifeform, of making first contact with an alien species. For what has to be the 1,000th time, Adrian thinks of their mate. ♪♫♪♫ would love to be here, clamoring for the opportunity to connect with intelligent life. They felt their vents flare with the weight of their grief.

    "Yes, something else," their coworker, ♪♪♪, turns to their radio and twists a few knobs and adjustments until a strange voice spills out into the open air.

    "Hǝllo¿ Ԁlǝɐsǝ¿ ∀ʌǝ dlǝɐsǝ I ƃoʇ ʇɥǝ qox' ʎon dɹoɯᴉsǝp' ʎon dɹoɯᴉsǝp ᴉp qǝ ɟɹǝǝ˙ I pᴉp ǝʌǝɹʎʇɥᴉuƃ ʎon ɐsʞǝp˙ Ԁlǝɐsǝ' qɹᴉuƃ ɯǝ nd˙" it cried out desperately, and despite the fact Adrian couldn't quite understand what it was saying, their fear and desperation transcended language and species.

    "Oh," Adrian finds themself becoming very, very still.

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    After waiting for the return of their mate for so many years, Adrian stumbles upon something strange. A rouge moon of blood a rather pathetic creature beneath its waves.

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    07 Jun 2026