Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.Rowe

“Great art reaches out and grabs the souls of philistines as well.”   This novella is set in the "Misfits" storyworld. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   Or, you can find other short stories like today’s that aren’t part of the series on the “Misfits Origins” playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?...

“I’m not going to be one who’s a puppet to his own irrational hatreds. There’s more than enough directions to point my rational hatreds to.”   This story is Episode 20 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   Misfits Season 1 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/2vQHAeobemQ?feature=sh...

“Humanity can endure much, but it will not long endure the technologies of inhumanity.” If this story is too dark for your taste, check out my playlist of uplifting stories here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPD543dZTOh0UbuV8VnsSi2N&feature=shared Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com/author/p.e.rowe  Support (greatly appreciated): https://www.rowelit.com/support Sci-Fi Collections:...

“You may be a special kind of smart, but you’re also a special breed of stupid.”   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://youtu.be/P1eVwQTxYu0?si=WYQsps1Kzb-CAdLR Written toward the topic: “Lunar Mining”   Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com/author/p.e.rowe Support (greatly appreciated): https://www.rowelit.com/support Sci-Fi Collections: https://...

“Evil doesn’t explain itself. It doesn’t need to.”   This story is Episode 19 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   Misfits Season 1 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/2vQHAeobemQ?feature=shared   Rowe’s Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com/author/p.e.rowe Sci-Fi Collections: https:...

“I don’t often get to say it, but I love my job.”   This story was the February topic poll winner written toward the theme “Deep Space Assassin.” A big thank you to everyone who suggested topics and voted!   Misfits Season 1 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/2vQHAeobemQ?feature=shared   Rowe’s Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com/stores/P.E.-Rowe/author/B07NXMPHB6?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=t...

“We cannot be gods in our own galaxy.”   Written toward the topic:  “Virtual Utiopias”   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com https://perowe.substack.com/p/viscosity-and-stone   Support (greatly appreciated): https://www.rowelit.com/support Sci-Fi Collections...

“This city seems like it’s holding its breath.”   This story is Part 2 of Season 2 of “The Misfits” series. Get all caught up on Season 1:   Misfits Season 1 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/2vQHAeobemQ?feature=shared   Rowe’s Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com/stores/P.E.-Rowe/author/B07NXMPHB6?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true   If you prefer to read rather t...

“We were tough people—the kind of people who could stand in the darkness and cold for a year at a time and think: This is the place for me, hard in the dark of space.”   Thanks to everyone who voted in January’s audience-selected topic poll!   Also check out Isaac Arthur’s take on this topic on SFIA! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgymDYn2KtA Written toward the topic:  “Space Homesteading”...

“Wounds that cut us deep leave big scars.”   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAtI35TWHro Written toward the topic:  “Smart Cities”   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com https://perowe.s...

“I felt like I had two lives competing for space in my head.”   This story is Episode 17 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5 Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSKujJTuxt4 Written toward the topic:  “Technologic...

“The painter would come into her body and Linnea didn’t come back till the painter was finished.”   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5_F7t4mCj4 Written toward the topic:  “Reality Manipulation”   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available th...

“Ideas are just dreams without logistics.”   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpGbaF3kbc Written toward the topic:  “Selecting Crew for a Spaceship”   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://perowe.substack.co...

“One day soon, we’ll light this entire galaxy on fire.”   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzlaLJIhh5I Written toward the topic:  “Interstellar Pirates”   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://perowe.substack...

  “If we still have our minds and our hearts and each other, whatever comes next, we’ll be fine.”     If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com https://perowe.substack.com/p/the-brave-one   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: h...

“We must never mistake the truth for its consequences.”   This story is Episode 16 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   The Misfits paperback and e-book is available here:   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi W...

“I didn’t figure I’d done anything in my life to make a famous man of myself to that degree, at least thus far.”   This story is Episode 15 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

“Nature had a way of putting wrinkles in the smoothest of surfaces, though. It seemed that was always our role, in any time.”   This story is Episode 14 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: Written toward the...

“The sisters hardly ever talked about the infuriating reality that sometimes the most significant moments remain unanswerable and unexplained.”   Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFq-2k1wako Written toward the topic: "Have Spacesuit Will Travel"   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text...

“Every man, in memory, eventually recedes into some forgotten army.”   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fj5w8BwBE8 Written toward the topic:  "Spaceship Factories"   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack:...

“The best kind of fraud is the real damn thing.”   This story is Episode 13 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://perowe.sub...

“My heart knows love as well as it knows pain, and I know that I am meant to carry both across the universe with me.”   This story is the audience-selected topic poll winner for September 2023 “Dissident Space Cultures.” It’s also an origin story for Kristoff Mikkel (aka Juice) from “The Misfits” series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the “Misfits Origins” playlist here: https://www.youtube...

“Just because you can imagine it, doesn’t mean it’s so.”   This story is Episode 12 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://pe...

“You’re not free if you can’t say no."   Written toward the topic: "Living in Space" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWERVofzv0 As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of this and all my Sci-Fi Weeklies are available through my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com https:/...

“It was one thing being an outlaw in a society with laws, but this society didn’t even have the concept.”   This story is Episode 11 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/wat...