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    Earth did not expect the Hail Mary to return from her voyage; they had expected her inhabitants to accept their fate, future patron saints of one-way trips.

    They had measured the optics. They had prescribed three astronauts with a death sentence; two aware and wanting of the pills they were handed to swallow, one dragged kicking and screaming. They had decided that the future of all humanity, of all known intelligent life, was worth these three lives. They had expected that these three lives would make peace with this: that there would be no help other than their own hands in the unknown stretch of the forever cosmos. They had anticipated no consequence for their actions; that those three names would be known as heroes, no questions asked about if they had wanted to be heroes at all.

    They had not counted on Ryland Grace.

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    Or: the probes don't launch. Ryland Grace is forced to return to Earth.

    He still isn't giving up on Erid. Or Rocky.

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    ABSTRACT: Months into their journey to Erid, Grace decides to pass the time and distract his wandering mind by writing a scientific paper. Considering his track record, it’s safe to say that absolutely nothing can go wrong with that.

    KEYWORDS: Astrophage, kindness, memory, space exploration, cooperative breeding, grief, friendship

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    Grace’s discomfort with Dr. Devon Hale was a slow, creeping thing. Because on the surface, she was a perfectly nice woman. She worked under Dr. Lamai on the coma bed technology, was tall and imposing with long brown hair and a symmetrical face that others categorized as “pretty”—which Grace only knew because he'd overheard some lab techs comment on it one day. He never had the eye for that kind of thing.
    One of the scientists on Stratt’s Vat likes Dr. Grace, and she doesn’t understand when he says no.

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    Eva Stratt had built her life on the principle that every variable could be accounted for, every cost weighed against its return. She had never once, in the years of impossible arithmetic, allowed sentiment to sit on either side of an equation. She had not intended to start with Ryland Grace.

    She had not intended a great many things about Ryland Grace. But then again, who expected Ryland Grace

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