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    The Hail Mary has spent the last four years on its return journey to Earth; its Taumoeba safely secure and its astronauts excited to finally return home.

    But Earth was never expecting their return, or the knowledge they bring with them.

    or; local earthlings startled to find out crew they sacrificed 26 years ago alive and well. also aliens exist.

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    There’s so much Court remembers about his little brothers, and yet so little of it matters.

    He hadn’t been with them when they started middle school. He hadn’t been there to awkwardly avoid eye contact when they presented. He hadn’t been able to drive them to the movies or threaten prom dates or buy them their first drink.

    But Courtland watches them. He always watches them, helping where he can, keeping them safe the only way he knows how.

    Careful violence.

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    Courtland stalks his little brothers and helps them from the shadows, until Tom Ryder forces him out of hiding.

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    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.

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