QEcho



Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 82

    Tags
    Summary

    She knew that after the Mary had taken off, she would be everyone’s favorite whipping boy. She has told Ryland so. She wouldn’t be useful anymore, and they would need someone to blame for all the damage she’d caused, and therefore she would be paraded around the world for endless trials and eventually rot in prison in whatever country decided to take her on.

    She had not expected it to come so fast.

    --

    or, Eva Stratt is whisked around the world for trial after trial, the situation deteriorates far faster than anyone had predicted, and she keeps asking herself why. Until one day the Hail Mary contacts the ISS requesting to dock and asking for a ride back to Earth.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    18,812
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Comments:
    86
    Kudos:
    431
    Bookmarks:
    82
    Hits:
    3,687

    29 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    The Hail Mary lands back on Earth carrying a middle school teacher and the alien microorganism that will save the world. Thousands of miles away, Eva Stratt watches her lead scientist kiss the ground through a grainy TV screen. Deep in prison with bruises littering her skin, she thinks it's all right that she'll die here, because humanity will persevere. Her job is done, so the rest of her life doesn't matter in the grand scheme. She deserves the hell she lives in.

    Ryland Grace disagrees.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    44,119
    Chapters:
    8/10
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    583
    Kudos:
    1,484
    Bookmarks:
    326
    Hits:
    24,889

    28 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    A little over thirteen years after the Hail Mary launch, Eva Stratt is released from prison to assist the world’s bickering space agencies after a junior NASA technician spots an unidentified object near the orbit of Neptune. It appears to be on a direct collision course with Earth, and is moving so quickly it does not appear to be affected by any local gravitational forces, not even that of Sol. Oh, and one more thing—it seems to be slowing down.

    OR

    Captain Dr. Ryland Grace pilots the Hail Mary home long before (and long, long after) its mission is supposed to be complete. In their desperate venture beyond their solar system, humanity may have just accidentally unlocked a new chapter in interstellar physics.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    44,821
    Chapters:
    12/?
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    472
    Kudos:
    1,136
    Bookmarks:
    356
    Hits:
    15,224

    25 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I LOVE

  4. Public Bookmark 35

    Tags
    Summary

    The rest of the world has to come first. Eva Stratt knows this.

    Knowing it doesn’t make it hurt less. It assuages some of the guilt, at least. That’s the only consolation she’ll get.

     

    OR: Eva Stratt and Ryland Grace, eight years into their marriage, as they navigate the last few months before the launch of their Hail Mary.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    13,860
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Comments:
    32
    Kudos:
    191
    Bookmarks:
    35
    Hits:
    2,078

    24 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    The Hail Mary has been shot out into the depths of the infinite void of space to search for an answer that may not even be there. Aboard, the three crew members lay in stasis as the ship hurtles like an arrow towards a distant star, with no hope of return, but a desperate hope to make things right.

    At home, two brothers are left in sudden and violent grief. A woman grapples with whether or not she made the right decision. The world strains and suffers under the weight of the coming Fimbulwinter.

    And then one of the beetles returns.

    Thirteen years early.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    66,357
    Chapters:
    18/26
    Comments:
    2,096
    Kudos:
    5,026
    Bookmarks:
    1,313
    Hits:
    69,840

    24 Jun 2026