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472 works open to everyone here carry this tag; 73% are complete. The average one runs about 14,300 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.

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Project Hail Mary (2026)+1

Major Tom to Ground Control

by tallboy_benny

Eva Stratt has never been a woman who hesitates. She’s made countless decisions after decisions throughout her life, often regardless of the consequences that may result. She’s not an idiot. She’s well aware that there will be consequences, and she’s equally sure that the consequences will be of little concern. The end justifies the means — her actions will be judged, but at least they will have happened. But here, alone in a Russian conference room, for once in her life Eva Stratt does not know what to do.OR; The beetles make it home.

Teen 31k words 10 / ? ch In progress 8.1k kudos

#bestofbothworlds · < very minor mention but tagged just in case · (implied. for right now anyways) · First Contact· +27 more

Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)

we have not touched the

by prouvairing

Sometimes they’ll also ask him why he hasn’t gone out and chased his soulbond yet. Jim will point to the sky, and say, “The moon’s always there, babe. Don’t need to go chasin’ after her.” It is January, year 2063. Humanity has quietly achieved interstellar travel, and Jim Kirk’s soulbond stretches into the stars.

Teen 7.1k words 1 ch Complete 4.4k kudos

Alternate Universe - Soulmates · First Contact

Original Work+2

When Opportunity Knocks

by AKelaNakamura

Originally posted on Tumblr after Oppy was declared nonfunctional. (Yes, this is very late). First contact has been made and a ship is on its way to an intergalactic meeting. But first, humanity has a stop to make. An old friend has been waiting. (Now with a bonus ramble about Perseverance, the Mars Rover that waits for her story to begin) Opportunity

General 1.1k words 2 ch Complete 1.6k kudos

In memory of Oppy · Cross-Posted on Tumblr · I Had FEELINGS about Oppy · Adding this to AO3 a long time later· +9 more

Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)+1

Spaceships Private Jets

by Scientia_Fantasia

One early summer morning in Riverside, Iowa, a spacecraft crash lands into the backyard of a highschooler by the name of James T. Kirk.Earth history is changed forever.

Teen 49k words 9 ch Complete 1.6k kudos

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting · Language Barrier · First Contact · jims step dad is not a nice man· +6 more

Star Trek+1

His First Officer

by greywitchy

When some aliens assume "first officer" means "first man" aka the captain's mate and significant other, they arrange for a room with only one bed.Bonus points: Jim and Spock are actually married, which is a hush-hush secret. Most of the crew pretend not to know.More bonus points: the same aliens assume Chekov to be their son.

General 3.4k words 2 ch Complete 1.5k kudos

Alien Cultural Differences · Alien Culture · Alien Planet · Aliens· +21 more

The Avengers (2012)

With Only A Lexicon

by icarus_chained

Tony, Bruce, Thor and JARVIS examine what seems to be an alien golem that attacked New York, and slowly realise they may have made a small mistake.

Teen 3.5k words 1 ch Complete 978 kudos

Science Fiction · Artificial Intelligence · Alien Technology · First Contact· +8 more

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Desert

by Oceanbreeze7

The reason why the shack was still standing, was because the Nevada wilderness was bleak and empty.Open and sprawling, miles and miles of sand and rock with barely any rain each year. Nevada encompassed two deserts, the Mojave stretched across as one of the largest in the continent.It was unremarkable, nondescript, and every cliff looked like the one before it.Maybe that’s why the Garrison never found the shack, or maybe they didn’t care to look for it.(Maybe that’s why the Paladins hadn’t either.) He didn’t have anything to do most days, nowhere to go, nobody to fight.He ran, he took his knife and strapped on his boots (They were wearing thin and busting at the seams, leaving blisters that bled and bled) and just...ran.Until his muscles burned and the air seared his throat and the closest thing to an adrenaline rush burned in his blood. (And when he found a cliff just high enough, just dangerous enough...he’d dangle his legs over the edge and scream until the coyotes would howl back.)

Teen 11k words 3 ch Complete 956 kudos

Galra Keith (Voltron) · Gay Keith (Voltron) · Keith (Voltron) is Bad at Feelings · Socially Awkward Keith (Voltron)· +13 more

Star Trek+2

From the Stars With Love

by greywitchy

Jim is an explorer and engineer serving with Admiral Christopher Pike. He's working on a portable beaming device, and a malfunction accidentally lands Jim on Vulcan, a planet previously undiscovered. In Spock's garden to be exact.Spock was meditating on his life when this odd man fell on him from the sky. Perhaps, fate did exist after all.

Teen 19k words 14 ch Complete 924 kudos

Alien Biology · Angst with a Happy Ending · Angsty Spock · Bones had enough of this· +20 more

Space Australians

Psychopomp

by TexasDreamer01

They were prepared for us, our terrain, our weather, and our wildlife. They never could have predicted the paranormal entities of earth.

General 1.5k words 1 ch Complete 919 kudos

Paranormal · Aliens · First Contact · Science Fiction· +6 more

Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)

Plugged In

by SakuraMinamino

Spock creates a videogame in an attempt to study humans to determine if they are ready for first contact. With the new opportunity to interact with the new species, he joins the game to study them first hand. Jim catches wind of a strange NPC that hangs out in the IDIC tavern in ShiKahr. Everyone thinks it's defective, but Jim thinks it might be a secret event and talks to him. He's strange, and he's kind of cute in a weird way. Starfleet starts getting wind that the game might be controlled by people not of Earth origin, and they begin to question the creators' motives. Will Jim choose Starfleet, a faction he had sworn his life and loyalty too, or a man he had never even met face to face?

Teen 94k words 15 ch Complete 890 kudos

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Video & Computer Games · Romance· +13 more

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary: The Next Generation

by TEMullen

After years of scientific advancement stimulated by the Hail Mary's arrival, the Eridians finally make their first voyage to Earth accompanied by Ryland Grace. Earth scrambles to roll out the welcome mat.

General 38k words 5 / ? ch In progress 827 kudos

After the book ends · Back to Earth · First Contact · Interplanetary Travel· +1 more

Teen Wolf (TV)

Constellations

by thedaughterofkings

Building relations with an alien race was always going to be difficult enough anyways. But when he meets Stiles, Derek finds himself with a rather more personal incentive to 'make nice with the aliens'.Now they only need to figure out their translation issues.

Teen 3k words 1 ch Complete 799 kudos

Alternate Universe - Aliens · Alternate Universe - Werewolves Are Known · Alien Stiles Stilinski · Alien Cultural Differences· +5 more