Ryland Grace knew three things at this current moment. Hopefully that would improve. One: he was on a spaceship. Two: he did not know why. Three: the woman in the medical bay where he had woken up was alive, and for reasons his brain could not provide, that mattered more than everything else. *** I usually don't post my work, but I just wanted to try it out. Terrible at writing descriptions.

One Solar System One Milky Way And one dying sun. Ryland Grace is a scientist/teacher who never wanted to be a hero, just someone solving problems in a quiet lab and to teach his children, far from the end of the world. But the world is ending anyway. Katlynn Briar always felt like she was destined to achieve something big for humanity. But when she finally gets the chance, it doesn't feel like triumph-it feels like weight. Like every answer she finds costs something she can't put back. But the universe doesn't care. When the Hail Mary project shifts from theory to reality, choices disappear. Governments decide. Orders are signed. And Ryland Grace is taken from Earth whether he is ready or not. They don't have a choice. Katlynn Briar is still there in the silence after the launch decision-watching the world continue as if nothing has changed, while everything inside her already has... And somewhere out in the dark, a ship turns toward the stars carrying one man who never wanted to leave...

There always has been this mindset perpetuated by society that girls can't be engineers. You went to MIT, studied aerospace engineering working at NASA, but your credentials were easily invalidated by the formation of your chromosomes. Now, the world is ending, and it desperately need a mind like yours, a mind you thought nobody else would need. Now of course they wouldn't just send a woman to space by herself, they need a man to take some credit. Not just any man however, a junior high school science teacher. What a bunch of B.S. As a group of 3, (RIP the pilot) you were sent into outer space to figure out the Petrova Problem - the future of the world lay in your palms. Will this space journey prove to be a total bust, or will isolation pave the way for new relationships?

Dr. Ryland Grace never took risks, he quit his career in acidemia over a controversial paper he wrote and took a job as a middle school science teacher, and he never got into relationships because he was scared they would end. You were an astronaut; your life was a risk and every second of it was everything you ever could've wanted. On that front the two had nothing in common until Astrophage, the end of the world.

After the Solivagant takes an unintended trip across space-time and dumps Captain Y/n L/n in a universe that's not her own, she's left with a barely working ship, dead crewmates, and a fraction of her resources. Drifting through the vastness of deep space and with death nipping at her heels, Y/n is certain that the Solivagant will soon be her tomb. But life isn't done with her, yet. Rescued from the geospace of Erid's orbit, Y/n finds herself in the bio-dome of fellow human Dr Ryland Grace. Someone she knew, but also a stranger, a cosmic clone from a mirror Earth. As Y/n's body slowly heals, so does her heart. Can she find a new crew on Erid? TLDR: Rocky adopts another weird dog

I wasn't supposed to be here. At first, I convince myself it's just a bizarre coincidence. Ryland Grace exists. He's real. He's just a teacher... just a man I was never supposed to meet and definitely never supposed to fall for. Then the world starts to change. The impossible becomes impossible to ignore, and I realise this isn't just his world. It's his story. And I know exactly how it ends. I know what he's going to be asked to do. I know what it will cost him. I know that one day he'll have to choose between the man he is and the man the world needs him to be. I can't tell him any of it. So instead, I stay. I stand beside him as everything slowly falls apart, offering reassurances I can't explain and hoping that somehow, somehow, knowing him might change what's coming. Because I know. I just know. #1 in RyanGosling out of 336 stories 30/06/26 #2 in ProjectHailMary out of 227 stories 20/08/26 #2 in Ryland out of 1.77K stories 30/06/26 #4 in Isekai out of 25.4K stories 13/07/26 #1 in AndyWeir out of 31 stories 07/07/26

They met by chance in a crowded bar. She was Dr. Isla Torres, a brilliant NASA physicist with a sharp mind and sharper instincts. He was Ryland Grace, an awkward but beloved middle school science teacher with a habit of turning every conversation into a lecture on something wonderfully nerdy. One ridiculous shirt. One impulsive question. One night that turned into forever. They fell in love quickly-messily, intensely, completely. Ryland loved the way Isla could match his science with ease and then challenge him just to watch him think. Isla loved the way Ryland made her laugh like she wasn't carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. They married. Built a life together. Years of quiet mornings, shared jokes, late-night arguments about Pluto, and a love so steady it felt like gravity itself. And then- Dr. Ryland Grace and Dr. Isla Torres Grace wake up. Not in their bed. Not in their home. But aboard a spaceship drifting in deep space. Head pounding. Memory fractured. No idea how they got there. Ryland looks at the controls he doesn't remember learning. Isla stares at the stars she doesn't remember agreeing to leave Earth for. And between them, a terrifying truth begins to form: They didn't just wake up in space. They were sent there. Together.

More than three years after Ryland Grace vanished aboard the Hail Mary. The mission that could save Earth became one of history's greatest mysteries-buried beneath layers of classified records known only to a handful of people. Among those obsessed with uncovering the truth is Dr. Nova Dreen, a brilliant astrophysicist whose research into Astrophage propulsion leads her to a startling discovery. The Hail Mary was never impossible to retrieve. By refining the Astrophage fuel cycle, Nova proves that a second interstellar vessel could make the journey to Tau Ceti-and return. Dismissed by the scientific establishment and told to abandon an idea that resurrects painful memories of Project Hail Mary, once it fall into the hands of Eva Stratt, the woman who orchestrated humanity's desperate gamble three years before. Faced with the possibility that they could save the crew, Stratt authorizes one final mission. The spacecraft Hail Joseph launches with a simple objective: find the Hail Mary, recover any surviving crew or scientific data, and bring humanity's heroes home.

When Grace wakes up on the Hail Mary, he tries everything he can to wake the only surviving crewmate from her coma. Nothing works until he meets Rocky. Grace and Finch find themselves on the Hail Mary without their memories, but with one common goal: save the stars. Neither of them expect to find a home in Rocky, nor for their bond with him to bring them closer. As they learn more about themselves, their mission, and how they lost their memories, they quickly realize that neither of them are equipped to deal with the growing comfort they find in each other. Rocky decides he's done watching them dance around it and takes matters into his own very exasperated hands. A Project Hail Mary fanfiction that takes place after Grace meets Rocky. This story is mostly canon compliant with a few minor deviations explained through flashbacks on Earth.

Ryland Grace imagines!! I'll take any requests from the comments :)