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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Long before Tau Ceti, Rocky was an engineering student struggling inside an educational system it wasn't built for. Adrian was an entrepreneur who had nothing and no one left. This is the story of how they found each other, then held on for dear life in a world careening toward an environmental apocalypse.

    Follow them both in a prequel story covering from before Rocky and Adrian meet, through the Eridian mission to Tau Ceti. Get to know the planet Erid, as brought to life by two talented artists as part of the 2026 Project Hail Mary Big Bang event!

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    22 Oct 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    humans are...scary. Very scary.

    Adrian realizes this while chaperoning for a class field trip.

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    22 Oct 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 74

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    whumptober 2026 day 18: suicide attempt

    The box is nondescript, identical to all the other storage boxes except for the blunt ‘Life-Ending Measures’ label printed across the top. Inside are three smaller boxes, each with names engraved into the metal.

    ИЛЮХИНА — Ilyukhina.

    姚 — Yáo.

    The last one catches Grace off-guard. He’s expecting it to belong to DuBois, but DuBois’ chosen method had been nitrogen poisoning, and all the nitrogen had been stored with the rest of the chemical resources in the lab. Grace’s access to it had been the only reason he was able to wipe out both Taumoeba leaks in time.

    DuBois wouldn’t have needed anything else; no final lethal dose like Ilyukhina or bullets like Yáo.

    But there are three boxes here. And on the third, etched in neat letters, is Grace.

    or; stratt leaves grace a present :P

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    21 Oct 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    adj. capable of sensing, feeling, or perceiving.

    The lifelong story of two alien friends, told through short stories of biology, language, and the complex senses that allow them to know each other.

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    I’ve spent too much time thinking about the differences between human and Eridian sentience. Non chronological.

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    16 Oct 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    “Alright, Cal,” I tell the little orange Eridian. “Remind me again—what happens at the end of the month?”

    Cal wiggles in place. “Halloween! The last day is Halloween!”

    “Right!” I turn my back to the class just for a moment to gather up a stack of papers, embossed so that the text on them is readable.

    The writing is all in Eridian, and the paper itself is something that the biodome team helped develop: a miraculous material that can withstand both my environment and Erid’s. If I was still on Earth, it would be one of the most incredible feats of the century—aside from everything we accomplished on Project Hail Mary—and yet, most of it is shipped here, to my cozy little seaside classroom. It’s very important for things like homework.

    Or field trip permission slips.

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    09 Oct 2026