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   The Distance Between Skies by JM1911A1

   Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   06 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace
   • Ava & The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace & Eva Stratt
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary) & The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • Adrian/Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Convict | Simon & David (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace & Jack (Iron Lung)
   • Adrian & Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • Ryland Grace & The Hail Mary Computer | Mary
   • The Convict | Simon & Jack (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ava (Iron Lung)
   • Eva Stratt
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • Jack (Iron Lung)
   • David (Iron Lung)
   • Original Eridian Characters (Project Hail Mary)
   • Ryland Grace's Eridian Students
   • The Blood Eel (Iron Lung)
   • Original Children of Adrian and Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Father (Iron Lung)
   • POV Ryland Grace
   • POV The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Needs a Hug (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace Needs a Hug
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky are Best Friends
   • Mutated The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace is on the Asexuality Spectrum
   • The Convict | Simon Has Trust Issues (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has Religious Trauma (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has PTSD (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has Anger Issues (Iron Lung)
   • Bisexual The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Actually more like Bisexual But Never Genuinely Thought About Any Of That What The F- The World Is A Disaster The Convict | Simon
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • Honestly everyone in Iron Lung is 180 Degress of Screwed Up
   • Slow Burn
   • the slowest burn known to man
   • Glaciers melt quicker than this
   • Spoilers for Iron Lung (2026)
   • They/Them Pronouns for Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • He/Him Pronouns for Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Project Hail Mary Spoilers
   • Quote: You just need to find someone to be brave for (Project Hail Mary 2026)
   • Quote: I just wanna live. Is that so wrong? Why doesn't anybody else want that? (Iron Lung 2026)
   • Author Has Not Watched Project Hail Mary (2026)
   • Author Has Watched Iron Lung (2026)
   • The Convict | Simon Has a Bad Time (Iron Lung)
   • POV Ava (Iron Lung)
   • Mature for violence
   • Mature for Genre Appropriate Horror
   • Mature for Genre Appropriate Concerns
   • No Smut
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • I promise comfort eventually

   Summary

   <WHAT ARE THESE?>
   <WHAT ARE WHAT?>
   <THE DISGUSTING SKELETON CREATURES BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THAT CLEARLY ALIVE AND MOVING GIANT FANGED SEA MONSTER?>
   <WELL THE FUCKED UP SKELETON IS MY JOB>
   <WHAT KIND OF JOB INVOLVES A GIANT BLOB-FISH-EEL-SKELETON?>
   <THE KIND YOU DONT GET A FUCKING SAY IN>

   Ryland Grace has already saved humanity once.
   Simon has spent most of his life trying to survive what was left of it.

   Separated by improbable distance, impossible timelines, and a computer terminal that should never have been able to connect them, two men who know far too much about sacrifice find themselves sharing research, terrible jokes, increasingly personal conversations, and a problem neither universe should still be alive to have.

   Because somewhere between a dying reality, a blood ocean, and a mission three hundred years in the making, something is trying very hard to close the distance between worlds.

   Unfortunately for the universe, both Ryland Grace and Simon have always had a problem with sacrifices...

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Distance Between Skies AU

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   23,383

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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