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  1. Public Bookmark 27

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    “Dr. Grace.”

    “Stratt.”

    “Why do you call me that?”

    “What? Stratt?”

    “Just Stratt. Not Director Stratt. Not Ms. Stratt. Not…”

    “...Madam Administrator Stratt?”

    “I hope not.”

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    21 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Daniel is here. In the backseat with her. They’re both in the backseat, even though the passenger’s seat is free. Sort of like a chauffeur situation. Except the chauffeur is also some sort of security, and he’s going to stay in the next room over.

    People driving a little crazy. Honking and yelling. So many people out, even this late. Margaret puts her hands over her head and ducks down. She’s probably the most recognizable person in the world right now. She doesn’t want to be.

    Daniel is ducking, too. No one is following us, he promises, but he isn’t sure, in his head. He holds out his hand, shaky, in the space between them. Margaret takes it.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    Fault tolerance/catastrophic functionality:
    a system's capability to handle faults without any degradation or downtime. [...] Failure tolerant systems mask errors and maintain failure-free operation in the presence of one or more faulty components. [Wikipedia]


    Eva Stratt knows Ryland Grace has a problem.

    But the end of the world doesn't stop for one man's problems, and she can't afford to lose her leading Astrophage expert to rehab.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    "Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.

    "You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."

    "And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."

    "Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"

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    14 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    wowowow

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    07 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 84

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    The intruder enters the kitchen slowly, limbs held low to the ground. Their carapace tilts from side to side as they draw near, fixing their auricles on me.

    The xenosuit they have on looks cobbled together, almost experimental. It’s not see-through like my team’s suits are. It wasn’t designed with my light detectors in mind. Instead, it’s dark and opaque, and not at all helping to dispel the impression of a masked burglar in my home.

    I’ve never seen that body language in person before, but I understand it on an instinctual level. Eridians are the apex predators of their planet. It’s a hunting stance, and I am the prey.

    or: Grace experiences a home invasion on Erid.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    The alien—Grace—is finally asleep. Or, at least, Rocky thinks he is. He’s curled on his side, tucked away under a covering. Rocky sits on the other side of the alcove the human lies in, fiddling away with one of his many repair projects. Typically, watching another as they sleep is fairly straightforward and uneventful. Not much is needed beyond something to do and to keep a lookout for whoever’s resting.

    But Rocky can’t help but focus more on Grace as he rests. He just can’t; the way the human sleeps is, quite literally, otherworldly.

     

    Or: Snippets of Rocky watching Grace sleep during their mission to save their stars

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    06 Jun 2026

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    The texture of my entire tablet shifts as the video plays.

    It is a recording of the very room we are in. The angle shows the room from above, looking over the beds. In each bed, I can make out the general shape of a human covered by something. Three in total.

    I wait for something to happen. Why is there a recording of the crew in their comas?

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    Rocky stumbles upon surveillance footage of when Grace first woke up.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    "My 100th earth birthday—my age if I’d never experienced time dilation—is coming up in a few months and Rocky is very excited about it. It’s touching how special he wants to make this human milestone for me and I wish I could be excited with him. Instead, I’m sitting with the knowledge that this is probably my last birthday…and I have no idea how to tell Rocky."

    Grace and Rocky discuss Grace's mortality as his 100th earth birthday approaches.

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    01 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 48

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    When Paul and Ringo arrived on Earth, they were each found to contain the following items:

    1. A sealed container filled with atmospheric gasses and microbial life.
    2. A detailed account of the breeding process and care of Taumoeba-82.5.
    3. Instructions for how to save the world.
    4. A small sample of an unfamiliar metal.
    5. A password protected document titled “Discovery of Sentient Alien Lifeform - Only Eva Stratt Will Know the Password.”

    Or: Grace's goodbye message to Stratt.

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    01 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 13

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    31 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up in a small room alone, where the walls are wrong, his body is wrong, and there's a rock spider like nothing he's ever seen looming over him. He has no memory of how a middle school science teacher could've possibly ended up on an alien planet trillions of kilometers away from the nearest fellow human being- and yet these aliens seem determined to take good care of him.

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    The drug Grace was given to induce amnesia before going on the Hail Mary has unpredictable long-term side effects.

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    30 May 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 33

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    They get some decent rest on their first night of the trip as sheer exhaustion takes over, and when they wake up and climb up to the observation dome the Earth has become shockingly small.

    “No human being has ever been farther from Earth,” Yáo says softly and Olesya nods.

    They watch for a long time.

     

    The last waking days of Olesya and Yáo, from the meeting after Grace gets kidnapped to the moment they enter the coma.

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    30 May 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 34

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    Ryland Grace had gotten to him, wormed his way right into his well-shielded heart, and right now he feels trapped, caught between what he wants to do and what he has to do. He rubs his neck and tells himself it doesn't matter because he has a job to do. He took an oath, for fuck's sake.

    Missing scenes for the time between Grace being tackled on base until his trip to the Hail Mary.
    Carl's POV.

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    30 May 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 18

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    Rocky doesn't let me work if I'm on painkillers. He's kind of right not to, they make me stupid, really stupid, slow and dumb. It's been over a week that I haven't taken any, and I've gotten used to it okay.

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    30 May 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 25

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    “Dr. Grace?” It’s been ages since Carl called me that. I can’t find it in myself to correct him. I hadn’t even heard him knock. “You asked to see me?”

    Is this what being Stratt had felt like, people tiptoeing around you all the time? If only we’d had the time to treat the Astrophage with the same terrified respect. Then I wouldn’t be standing here in this room, space yawning cavernous around us like shoes I can never hope to fill.

    I swallow what feels like a scream. “Come in. Close the door.”

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    29 May 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 51

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    Grace chases down Stratt after her karaoke performance and asks her to come back to the party with him. She learns about the ship-wide bet that she and Grace are hooking up, and shenanigans ensue.

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    28 May 2026

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    For Grace, touch is comfort.

    For Rocky, it’s proof of life.

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    27 May 2026

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    A series of disconnected one-shots that take place at different times in Grace and Rocky’s journey.

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    20 May 2026

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    appendix noun 1. A separate part at the end of a book or magazine that gives extra information. 2. A small tube-shaped part that is joined to the intestines on the right side of the body and has no use in humans.

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    19 May 2026

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    amaze !!

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