Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.Rowe

"Above the emotion was that same clear, loud voice—a clarity of purpose rendering all else trivial. Emotions now were a luxury."   Now on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PERowe4   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Space Habitats" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EkX9vARGww   If you prefer to read rather than listen or wou...

"War makes its own terms. The people must live in them." Now on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PERowe4   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA themes: "Spaceports" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmLWxptFFYc   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 avail...

"At that moment, before she saw him, Doug was still alive, but, he told himself, he might as well be a dead cat." Now on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PERowe4 As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA themes: "Multiverse Warfare & Quantum Mania" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCTCB4lef1I If you prefer to read rather than listen or wou...

"There are people who kill you; there are people who get you killed; and there are people who help you stay alive." Lighter Story Alternatives: "Legacy" https://youtu.be/NvBaHie8EsU "Lime Harbor" https://youtu.be/belUOD32Z0I "Bird on Mars" https://youtu.be/7uDduj2jkus "Singular" https://youtu.be/VxM8uwipXyw Now on Twitter: twitter.com/PERowe4 As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for...

"We’re going to make a future we can live in. That’s the least I can promise you." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Planetary Terraforming Strategies" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV4IfsJ7vHU 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...

"You can put your troubles in a box; that doesn’t mean they’ll stay there." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Using Asteroids as Spaceships" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grfLUOOARBw   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 though my Subst...

"From the right perspective, viewed at the right time, an observer would witness a disturbance in the light from the stellar backdrop—an anomaly." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "The Dark Forest" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhHE2VA1ic If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full text of...

"I am looking at the most hated woman in all of history. Dr. Pitka Remera of Etterus, the woman who started the war of all wars." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Planetary Civil War" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8y45fEiviI&list=LL&index=2 If you prefer to read rather than listen or to read along, the full text can be...

"I thought of clever things I could do, ways to help. I spoke to high-minded people. I thought back then there were such things as saints." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Alien Refugees" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG0uDkUC02I If you prefer to read rather than listen or read along, you can access the full text throu...

"I learned a long time ago as an astronomer that the first thing you check if you think you’ve discovered a world-changing event is the telescope, then you check your eyes, then you sound the alarm." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Your Own Personal Spaceship" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9WvRVAAAa4 If you prefer to...

"Are you the type of person who not only knows what the right thing is but knows it and does it too?" As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Farming on Mars" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhoQMJN0z-Q If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page...

"It made me think a lot about thoughts, whether they belonged to the thinker or whether they were just a sentiment that got borrowed for the right occasion, only to be cast off when it was time to move on." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Stranded on an Alien World" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JER63IrBSqM If you pref...

"One cannot win a game if the opponent is cheating; in fact, if the opponent is cheating, they are not even playing the same game." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Automated Economies & Unemployment" Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kI_YYPzX5u0 If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets...

"At that very moment, we were walking history on a day that would be told and retold for generations to come." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Refueling Our Sun" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw20VbX1XCc If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the s...

"The universe, she hides her greatest treasures for the bold to uncover." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Alien Environments" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesnusW3Jq4 If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked bel...

"What more can we do in the face of our own destruction but play our part in history to the utmost." This story is part 2 of a story sequence: "Failsafe" is part 1 https://perowelit.podbean.com/e/failsafe-sci-fi-short-audiobook/   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Grabby Aliens" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llS4thbZkd0...

"I’ll warn you that nothing in your training can prepare you to have your whole understanding of yourself and your species stripped out from under you." This story is part 1 of a story sequence: The Next Layer https://youtu.be/DKgF7skFkW4 As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Alien Imposters & Doppelgangers" Video: https://www.youtub...

"I am haunted by the unknown, and I know that I shall never rest until I am dead." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Post-Science Civilizations" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQWwrGpV1fo If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my w...

"You have to try to exist in the moment you’re in, while also seeing the place you’re inhabiting on the arc of civilization." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Tethered Ring Space Launchers" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B2iqiKehyM If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-re...

"His plan was to die. I told him that he would certainly succeed. He said, 'I would prefer not to,' but insisted it was the only way." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Staying Sane in Space" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90kzrMnyBA If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-r...

"Deaths happen in space. Everyone who goes is aware of it, accepts it as a reality of an untamed territory. What is not acceptable is an unexplained death." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "The First Space Settlement" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxY5_FuckuY If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story...

"Who better than a pair of obscure, quirky comedians to bumble our way into first contact with an alien species? At least we’ll be able to laugh about it when we make the inevitable missteps." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Dumbest Alien Invasions" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sj2lORVrq0   If you prefer to read rath...

"The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves become our myths; our myths become our truths; and our truths shape our history." This story has a related "sequel" short "Stewards of the Drawdown": https://youtu.be/wRgcMoafTF0 As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Primitive Aliens" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxEpybDpmGA If...

"I’m in a very strange, archaic hospital, where they open your skull and give you brain damage, apparently." This story has a "prequel" short. "Kappa Salvage" This one should stand alone, but it may make a little more sense and be easier to follow if you check out that story first: https://youtu.be/kxa_NtHapQw As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on th...

"I merely looked into the accounts of the actual events and found out that we started the war, and we did so over a type of food I had never heard of, some confectionary called cupcakes." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Extragalactic Sanctuaries" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GksFOqnao If you prefer to read rather th...