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    Mission Specialist Mark Watney, DOB 10/8/1996, was retrieved via EVA at 15:47 UTC, after 549 SOLs stranded on Mars with limited access to food and water for bathing and hygiene. Patient under significant amounts of physical and psychological stress.

    Vital signs: BP 85/58, HR 113bpm, Body temperature 99.7F, O2 saturation: 97% on room air.
    Level of consciousness: Alert and oriented to self, time, and place.
    Appearance: Sweaty, emaciated, covered in dirt. Smiling.

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    A series of emails, memos, press releases, and medical records detailing the journey home from Mars with all 6 members of the crew safely aboard.

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    The Ares III crew, T-minus sixteen hours before the Ares V launch.

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    Anyway, Annie’s lecturing and Chris is not listening, because Beth stole his coffee and he’s staring at her like a total, infatuated idiot. She’s got her hands buried in the sleeves of one of his sweatshirts and the hood is pulled so far up on her head that he can barely see her eyes peeking out from under the hem of the fabric, and god, he loves her so much. He doesn’t even notice when Annie stops talking. Annie, whose philosophy is subtlety, waves a hand in front of his face to catch his attention and says, bluntly: “Don’t make my life hell.”

    Collection of one-shots all set in the same universe, post-Hermes.

    “I don’t care,” Annie says honestly. “The world will, and so will NASA, but as long as you don’t do anything stupid that I have to worry about, then I don’t care who you fuck in space.”

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    2/?
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    8
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    Lewis worked open the bag and dropped the half-dollar-sized sample into her open palm. It was a rusted brown color, common to most rocks on that planet, and relatively flat. She turned it in her hand and inspected the points that could have once been jagged, worn down by millions of years of dust storms. “You’re a bad influence,” she murmured, “Where’s it from?”

    “Kansas.”

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    When Ares III was forced to abandon their mission on Mars early, the world mourned the death of Mark Watney. History recorded him as the mission‘s sole casualty, a man who never made it home. But history was wrong. Against all odds, Watney survived Sol 6 and until the arrival of Ares IV — only to be silenced. Paid off and hidden under a new identity, he vanished from the record, a ghost living quietly in the shadow of his own legend.

    Years later, fragments of truth begin to surface. The Ares III crew who left him behind — haunted by memories of the man they thought they lost — stumble upon clues that suggest Mark‘s survival. As the pieces come together, they are forced to confront a devestating question: how much of their mission, their grief and even their triumph, was built on a lie?

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    Trauma can give people PTSD, flashbacks, and nightmares, can make them depressed and suicidal. But sometimes, trauma doesn't look so sympathetic. Sometimes trauma looks like anger, screaming insults at the ones you love and sometimes wishing you'd never been rescued in the first place.

    Watney is rescued, but he isn't the charismatic and friendly man he used to be.

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    7/10
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    The MAV tipped. Going home will be tricky.

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    3/?
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    Ha esperado mil años.

    La NASA no sabe que Watney está vivo. ¿Cómo va a cambiarlo intentar sobrevivir en aislamiento total hasta la Ares 4? ¿Qué desafíos va a encontar? ¿Puede superar 1408 soles sin perderse a sí mismo?

    Por el amor de dios, que alguien le envíe una mix-tape nueva.

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    8/?
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    The reader and Mark are both PhD candidates at Northwestern and both happen to be GTAs for an o-chem/bio-chemistry class. They schedule and meet up on neutral ground(a library) to get some grading done together and some unexpected feelings creep in. With the world advancing around them, and a new push to get humans to the surface of Mars, the two of them must try to forage their place in this world, but will they find out about their place in eachothers' hearts?

    11/17/24: For those who are interested, here is the playlist I listen to while writing/thinking about this fic <3 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jZouIhyzBdJQuBvUtLwy2?si=IrLCAdPNTjehju01unX1KQ

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    7/?
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    What-If Beth Johanssen was left behind instead of Mark Watney?

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    Chapters:
    6/?
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    69
    Bookmarks:
    20
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    2,145
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    “I was just told you mutinied for me because of the power of friendship, and you want me to go sit in my room with a juice box and calm down?” 

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    He told NASA they would have to do their witch hunt without him, but when Congress subpoenas him and opens one of their own, Mark doesn't get much of a choice.

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    Chapters:
    2/?
    Comments:
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    88
    Bookmarks:
    19
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    806
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    It's a long 211 day trip on Hermes before the Ares III crew returns home and Mark has some major adjusting and recuperation to do.

    As well as a look at how NASA (and the rest of the world) is preparing and reacting to the crew's final flight back.

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    Chapters:
    37/?
    Collections:
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    2,165
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    Hits:
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    Stress in space affects everyone differently. You're encountering a problem you don't reeeeally want to have to discuss with the ship's medic, but it's getting unbearable.

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    “And what does seven hundred and eighty kilograms of fuel buy us?” Venkat asked.

    “It buys us 300 kilograms of payload. It’s all about fuel versus payload. The MAV’s launch weight is over 12 600 kilograms. Even with the bonus fuel, we’ll need to get that down to 7 300 kilograms. So the rest of this booklet is how to remove over 5 000 kilograms from the ship.”

    Venkat leaned back. “Walk me through it.”

    Thirty-one drabbles to fulfil a challenge that is the writing equivalent of getting a spaceship designed for reaching low orbit all the way past Mars’s gravity. Payload, payload, payload. But hey…Watney survived, right?

    Unless otherwise stated, all instalments work with the bookverse and the movieverse, and inspiration is pulled from both at once. Kapoor is always called “Venkat” though.

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    17/31
    Comments:
    27
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    27
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    3
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    429
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    On the eve of her last shot at a real journalism job, Rory Gilmore meets a man in a Wookiee costume while covering a collectibles line in New York City. Neither shares their real name, but their one-night connection changes both of them—her path forward, his heart. When he vanishes to Mars as part of the Ares III mission, she’s left behind with a secret and a promise.

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    23,140
    Chapters:
    9/9
    Comments:
    14
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    86
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    38
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    1,107
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    After a run-in with the GIW, Danny falls through a wild portal and lands on Mars. He is injured and hurt. The Ares III team gives him aid; now, he just has to figure out how to keep his secret identity and get back to Earth safely. The Ares team not knowing that ghosts are real, mistake Danny for an alien. Danny brushes off his acting skills and rolls with it.

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    48,814
    Chapters:
    23/23
    Comments:
    512
    Kudos:
    960
    Bookmarks:
    288
    Hits:
    19,229
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    Mark's back on earth, and struggling to figure out who he is post-Mars. Luckily, just about everybody in the world is (and always has been) there to support him.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    149,474
    Chapters:
    23/?
    Comments:
    117
    Kudos:
    180
    Bookmarks:
    44
    Hits:
    4,653
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    A lot of random PHM and The Martian oneshots that I write when I'm bored and are in NO WAY professional!
    Some of these are for PHM Bingo on the official PHM discord server!
    Written by Sol/R

    Language:
    English
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    2,274
    Chapters:
    2/?
    Comments:
    13
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    31
    Bookmarks:
    7
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    330
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    After being rescued from Mars, Mark gets the news he's gonna need a few more miracles to keep going.

    After the fly-by pick-up, Mindy becomes aware she has done an obsessive amount of helpful things, and that's very scary.

    Maybe after some more work, they can hold each other up.

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    English
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    Chapters:
    2/25
    Comments:
    22
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    62
    Bookmarks:
    29
    Hits:
    1,066

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