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  1. Public Bookmark 32

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    Where the Hail Mary survives a trip through a black-hole-that's-not-really-a-black-hole on their journey to Erid, and our favorite teacher-alien duo discover a new Blip-A.

    An abandoned and fully-functional space station floats just outside the atmosphere of a distant celestial body, which seems to be covered in a suspicious red liquid. And if that's not crazy enough, a tree seems to be growing from the depths of that crimson sea, with a barely-breathing human man hooked onto one of its branches.

    It's time for Grace to be brave; after having the pressure of saving the entire world on his shoulders for so long, what was one more life?

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    17 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 71

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    There was something to be said about how sad it was to be in your thirties, single, and spending your Friday nights talking to a stranger on the internet that you paid for naked videos of themselves.

    But Ryland Grace was in far too deep to care.


    There was something to be said about how sad it was to be a convicted felon, single, and spending your Friday nights making content for strangers on the internet who paid to see you naked.

    But Simon Edenson had nothing left to lose.

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    16 Jul 2026

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    There is a void where they could not save the stars. Empty and cold, it lays dormant in its silent death. But some erdians found something impossible: life. Moving, writhing, violent life.

    And they brought it home to Erid. Back to where Grace can learn and observe the impossible alongside his friends and neighbors.

    But what they brought back isn't some mindless creature. It's not just a violent beast. It's human. Undeniably human.

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    15 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 18

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    After two years working in the Research & Development Unit at the Los Angeles Shatterdome, Doctor Ryland Grace is close to a breakthrough on a bioweapon, one they can deploy against the kaiju on the newest Jaeger in the PPDC--the Hail Mary. Everything nearly falls apart when the lab--and the intended pilots of the Hail Mary--are destroyed by a death cult of ecoterrorists calling themselves Eden, who see the kaiju as divine retribution for humanity's sins. Grace doesn't think he'll be tapped to be a Ranger, and doesn't want to be, but when the second set of pilots die in another attack, he's called upon. His copilot? Brother Simon Butcher, the only survivor of the Shatterdome attack. They'll have to learn how to work together; the world is counting on it.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    Confirmation bias: the human tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information that aligns with our existing beliefs, while ignoring or dismissing evidence that contradicts them.

    No matter what Grace tries to tell him, Simon is very sure that the man is divine in nature. It just makes sense.

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    Simon winds up in The Enclosure, naturally. Grace is super down to have human company on planet Erid, but he really wishes someone would have given him a little bit of warning first. Especially about Simon’s religious cult upbringing — if he had known about that, he maybe could have planned a better-worded greeting that wasn’t basically, “Be Not Afraid.” He really set them up for failure with that one.

    [NO AI USED, AND DO NOT FEED MY WORK TO AI, I EXPRESSLY FORBID IT.]

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    11 Jul 2026