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    Grace, question?

    His tone is patient, the chords of his words simplified so that I can definitely understand him without my laptop-translator-rig. See, he’s just considerate like that.

    No one in all the Earth Sci-Fi stories and movies tells you that the aliens will be kind.

    Another tap of his arm. Sad thoughts?

    “Sad thoughts.” I concede. No point lying to someone who can hear your heartbeat.

    Hm.

    I’m proud of myself for identifying the note as a thinking sound, a filler word. I gotta say, my foray into exolinguistics has been an excellent distraction from the general misery that is my now-mostly-remembered-life.

    Do you want to talk about it?

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    Some overdue conversations . Time spent together on the way back to Erid re-opens some old (and some fresh) wounds.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    As he stared down into the lumpy grey goop that was his evening rations, he contemplated whether it was really worth it.

    They’d come a very long way just for Grace to give up and die at the last hurdle, both physically and emotionally. The Tau Ceti system was a long, long way away now, and Grace had faced not one but two highly emotional suicide missions. Three, if you counted the time before he was given a military grade roofie and hucked into space without his memories.

     

    Rocky and Grace make it back to Erid! Huzzah!
    Now they have to navigate all of... that.

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    21 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 90

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    The journey to Tau Ceti is a long one.

    Or: For the low low price of clicking a red button, you can pilot the Hail Mary.

    [A HTML-fied interactive game.]

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    18 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 49

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    When she offered to die for the good of all humanity, Ilyukhina thought there’d be a lot more differential equations and a lot less shitty vodka and Hollywood’s a-list trying to relate to her.

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    During a political tour before the launch, the crew runs into a very familiar face.

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    18 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    Ryland is straight. He loves women. He had crushes when he was younger and wanted a relationship. One had failed but he still wanted to be loved.

    Grace makes some discoveries about himself.

    title from Point of View by Leith Ross

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    18 Jun 2026