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    Mark Watney has survived 118 sols on Mars, and he wouldn’t exactly say it’s been a cakewalk, but he only has about three more years of listening to disco to go (ugh) before Ares IV picks him up and take him home. But when something crashes on the Martian surface only a few kilometers from the Hab, NASA wants him to leave the safety of his little home on the Martian prairie to go investigate…what could possibly go wrong?

    Ryland Grace has survived a long time in space and almost a decade on Erid, but the anxiety of not knowing if the beetles made it to Earth finally drives him to try the dangerous journey back home, and Rocky and Adrian come with him. Everything was actually going pretty good…until a horrible accident leaves them hurtling through space (and time) with no choice but to crash land on the wrong planet.

    How is Watney going to deal with the unexpected company (and their weird secretiveness over why they were in space)? Is Grace going to be able to adjust to being around another human being again? And how are Rocky and Adrian going to handle the uncertainty of a reception to an Earth that’s never heard of aliens before?

    More importantly…how the fuck is NASA going to get them all home alive?

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    14 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    It’s the day of the explosion. But it’s already 9:24 am, and nothing has happened. Grace bites back a laugh at his ridiculous hypothesis. Yeah, right. He’s a time traveler and he can avoid death by traveling through time. What’s next? Teleportation? He crosses time travel out. After some consideration, Grace underlines “going insane.”

    The ground rumbles. Uh oh.

    Grace, stuck in a time loop between an explosion and death by space, must science his way out of it.

    Meanwhile, Stratt weighs the value of a life and a species while managing Grace’s shenanigans. Hopefully those visions of snow, ice, and death go away.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    It probably says a lot about the state of absolute lunacy that is his life that when Grace unexpectedly jolts awake back on Earth thirty years in his past, his feelings on the matter can be summarised as

    Huh. Well I guess this might as well happen too?

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Eva Stratt has never been a woman who hesitates.

    She’s made countless decisions after decisions throughout her life, often regardless of the consequences that may result. She’s not an idiot. She’s well aware that there will be consequences, and she’s equally sure that the consequences will be of little concern. The end justifies the means — her actions will be judged, but at least they will have happened.

    But here, alone in a Russian conference room, for once in her life Eva Stratt does not know what to do.

    OR; The beetles make it home.

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    01 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Eva Stratt lied.

    When Dr. Ryland Grace had asked if Stratt had another plan to save the world, she had lied.

    But no one else needed to know of the alien ship discovered in the shadow of Venus. That knowledge could throw everything into jeopardy and Stratt was determined to save humanity, no matter the cost. Even if it meant keeping an intelligent alien hidden away from prying eyes.

    What follows is a different story (and yet somehow the same) - one of a science teacher learning to find his place in the world, an alien looking to save his planet, and the meaning of bravery.

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    An AU where Rocky ends up on Earth instead of orbiting Tau Ceti E and how their story changes because of it.

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    30 Jun 2026