Projecthailmary Stories

𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄, project hail mary - *ೃ༄ when katalea mars and her best friend, ryland grace, are introduced to the leader of the international petrova task force, eva stratt, they soon unwillingly play bigger parts in a mission to help save the world. (started 19.4.2026) (project hail mary- film) (ryland grace x fem!oc) (@lars-cranberr1es, 2026)

✶. 𝓘𝐍 𝐖𝓗𝐈𝐂𝐇 caelia kostas, former art teacher and avid red wine lover and ryland grace, former science teacher and nerd show watcher, are sent into space on a desperate mission : same earth.

The sun is dying. The mission is a suicide run. There's an alien made of rock and jazz. And Dr. Ryland Grace has just realized the only other man on board is hot...and British. Ryland Grace x Male OC

Just a PHM ff heavily following the movie (haven't read the book yet, maybe will write another fic once I finally get the time and energy to pick it up) What if Grace wasn't alone? What if, along with him, one other person survived? That too being a teen prodigy (hah, real original, I know), who is maybe just a tad more distrustful compared to Grace. Just a draft, will be under HEAVY editing. Rare updates (but large) cause high school sucks the soul out of me. Apologies in advance for any weird phrasing and formatting, or sounding overly formal. English isn't my first language, tho I am studying to to a c2 level now (why is CPE so weird???)

Ryland Grace survived Project Hail Mary and somehow that was only the beginning of his story. Five years after Project Hail Mary, Ryland Grace has built a quiet life on Erid spending time with Rocky, Adrian and his students. Then a ship crashes onto the planet carrying a human-like alien explorer with secrets of her own. As Ryland is pulled back toward Earth, buried truths about the Hail Mary mission begin to surface and the connection growing between him and Senita may cost them both everything. Ryland Grace x FemOC Alien OC Slow burn ***posting new chapters Monday & Thursday*** FYI - This is still a rough draft so I will go back and update as I have time :) - Feel free to comment and provide feedback!

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

Dr. Corinne Kennedy, a doctor and researcher, wakes up on a spaceship with amnesia, only to realize she is humanity's last hope to stop an alien microbe from eating the sun and freezing Earth. However, she is not alone. this fic is cross-posted on quotev (@.romantical) and ao3 (@.allthecheesesticks)

A slow-burn between Dr. Ryland Grace and an OC, Elliana Woods. This takes place in a universe where Ryland doesn't get sent to space and stays an 8th grade teacher.

IronlungxPHM Victorian AU After a failed rebellion against the king, Simon had found himself broken and lost on the streets of London. That was until he was given an opportunity to work as a stable hand at Grace manor, where he received comforts beyond his wildest dreams. But he was left wondering, who was this 'Lord Grace' and what exactly did he want from a traitor like him?

The Hail Mary's radar detects a celestial body. An immense body, unmistakably different from an ordinary asteroid. Its size gives it away. The ship approaches it from the right. Too close. Grace doesn't want to waste fuel escaping its orbit, if they end up trapped. He assumes he is glimpsing the last planet of a solar system. But it's not. He feels his heart tighten in his chest, and a lump in his throat. He leans his body forward as far as the restraints allow, while gripping the sides of the chair with all the strength his tired muscles allow him to use. He gulps. The faint starlight reflects upon the blood. The thick, red liquid devours its glow with a voracious gaze. The surface of its crimson mantle watches the heavens in expectation, stirring - restless - before the presence of eternity. The void stretches infinite, inexorable, ineffable. It corrodes air, flesh, and iron. The Feast.

spoilers for Rusted Iron. Go read that first. Includes mostly bloodymary/Goldclaw

You were supposed to be a scientist. You were supposed to help save humanity. You were definitely not supposed to fall in love with an alien. Waking up millions of miles from earth alongside Ryland Grace was already enough of a nightmare. Neither of you remember anything about the mission; the ship is falling apart, and humanity's survival is resting on your ability to figure out a problem that seems almost impossible to solve. Then you meet Rocky. At first, he's simply an extraterrestrial you need to understand. Then he's your friend. Your crewmate. Somewhere along the way, you start learning his language. He starts learning yours. He brings you little gifts, you learn to recognize his different sounds, and somehow an engine bolt becomes the closest thing to a love letter you've ever received. Unfortunately for you, Ryland Grace has eyes. And he is never going to let you live this down. But beneath the jokes, the scientific discoveries, and the increasingly ridiculous attempts to understand one another, there's a question neither you nor Rocky know how to answer: Can a human and an alien from completely different planets fall in love? Maybe love doesn't need to look the same in every species. Maybe it only needs to make the distance between stars feel a little smaller.

Twenty-seven years after Ryland Grace left Earth, a signal from Erid proves that he's still alive. His daughter Sabrina is determined to reach him, and NASA launches Project Saving Grace to give him the supplies he needs to survive-but Julia has something else in mind. After spending nearly three decades waiting for her husband, she refuses to let this be another goodbye. She knows that going to Erid means leaving Earth behind forever, but for the first time in twenty-seven years, Julia gets to choose what comes next. And this time, she chooses Ryland. AKA Julia goes to Erid this fic is cross-posted on quotev (@.romantical) and ao3 (@.allthecheesesticks)

Grace and Rocky are on a mission to prevent the devastation of astrophage until they find an odd solar system where everything is already dead (except for a few space stations and a moon made of blood). They find a beautiful man named Simon (barely alive) and decide to rescue him. Will they be successful? Will Grace finally have a human friend? And is Grace actually as straight as he thinks? My first full fanfic lol (please be nice). I would recommend you watch both Project Hail Mary and Iron Lung before reading (there will be spoilers for both). I tried to make everything as scientifically plausible as I could. New chapters on Tuesdays! CW: swearing, blood, illness

In which a specimen accidentally escaped from a facility and is now living inside the walls of a laboratory, literally.

A modern-day AU with no astrophage or the quiet rapture where Simon and Grace are childhood friends and met at a playground when they were eight.

Ryland Grace isn't the only alive human upon the spaceship Hail Mary. When the automated systems wake up a second crew capsule, Grace is forced to share his desperate, amnesiac survival mission with someone else. As their memories slowly piece back together, they must figure out how to work together, handle an alien encounter, and save two worlds-or die trying. I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS NOR THE ORIGINAL STORY!!! This story is strictly by the orginal plot of the book/movie.

Who are you to me? - Project Hail Mary - GracexOc Jillian Fox takes an extra two weeks to wake up from her induced coma on the ship. Ryland Grace had already given up seeing as the pilot and engineer of the space craft had already passed in their comas. Due to their memory loss they can't seem to remember exactly what they ment to each other, but they both knew there was something. Something they wanted back.

Ryland Grace is unnerved to discover ANOTHER intelligent alien species. And to make things worse: This one looks just like him. - This is a retelling of the events of Project Hail Mary with an original alien character added. It will diverge from canon a lot. Watching or reading Project Hail Mary is unfortunately a pre-requisite, as this story begins partway through Grace's journey. (Crossposted to AO3)

Iouno project Hail Mary and Iron Lung crossover fic ig I will say (and I reiterate in the first chapter as well) that this is NOT a BloodyMary ship; as always while I have nothing against ships of any kind and I don't want to look like a hater or anything it just isn't often my cup of tea. I will say the name BloodyMary is SO COOL THO but anyway ahem yeah here we go As always I have no idea what the cover image should be so I tried to at least be on topic a bit and chose the one attempt at drawing the Eel I made a while ago so yippeee it's not entirely random this time!!