Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.Rowe

“The only choices left are choices that aren’t choices.”   Written toward the topic: "Near Term Space Colonization" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY01ZgvslMo 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: http...

“You just made us the target of the most dangerous people in the universe, Captain.”   This story is Episode 10 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/watch?v=XL1ehbG9EL8 Writ...

"All this time, I thought I was supposed to be a fighter, that I would make the most difference that way."   This story is Episode 9 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...

"The old borders, entirely dark but for the light we shed on them, now seemed meaningless." Written toward the topic: "The Last Planet"  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOrjZPrw5dg 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 throu...

“For the sake of my body, you have excised my soul.” Written toward the topic: "Earth After Humanity"  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFx9YlnAP2M 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 though my Substack: https://perowe.subst...

“Good people don’t get to do what they want. They do what they must.” Written toward the topic: "Dropships & Drop Pods"  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJIjAwk8Jg8 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 though my Substac...

“Lots of obvious things go unsaid among friends.” This story is episode 8 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/watch?v=SlfTSrOuh6U Written toward the topic:  "Robots & Wa...

"Your own mind is the most difficult obstacle; it deceives you; it tells you that you need to quit when you still have more left; it tells you that you can’t when you can."   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htq2cfi8nS0 Written toward the topic: "Mobile Cities"   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would lik...

"They are killers first and tricksters second. You never know about the trick until you’re dead."   Thanks to all the viewers who voted in last months’s audience-selected topic poll! Written toward the winning topic: “Bioships & Space Whales”   To vote in monthly topic polls, visit the P.E. Rowe YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@RoweLit/community   For a thorough breakdown of the...

"Test the walls. Test your fate. We do not need to brave death each day to be courageous, but we must be courageous."   Written toward the topic: "Life in 2323 AD" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkYSy9ngNx8 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...

"You must understand that your existence, such as it is now, will challenge the culture."   Written toward the topic: "Artificial Afterlives" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWDqCb5hRY 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...

This story is episode 7 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 though my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com https://perowe.substack.com/p/archangel   N...

"Tough is worth something in our business, but tough and stupid will get you into trouble eventually."   Written toward the topic: "Space Towers" Video:  As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!   This story is episode 6 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9s...

“The truth is more important than any feeling I may have about it. I will not deny what I clearly see in front of me. That’s not humility, that is cowardice.”   Thanks to all the viewers who voted in this week’s audience-selected topic poll. Written toward the winning topic: “AI in Cognitive Decline”   More on this project: https://www.rowelit.com/sci-fi-weeklies   If you prefer to read rather tha...

“Earth is for people, so they say.”   Written toward the topic: "Hungry Aliens" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vrMiqFoWKY 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 though my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com https://perow...

“If you do not choose your own god, someone else will choose it for you, and you may not like the outcome.”   Written toward the topic:  "Misconceptions about Space, Time & The Universe" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAU_8i17OLY   This is an origin story for Leda, from "The Misfits" series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5   If you prefer to read ra...

“No one can hide the past. At some point, you’re going to have to stop hiding from yours.”     As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Written toward: "Searching for Dyson Spheres": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf9SZgeVDqI (with an assist from "Megatelescopes"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciECLSCgTKY     More on this project: https://www.rowelit.com/sci...

This story is episode 5 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 though my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com https://perowe.substack.com/p/proper-compan...

"When a society breaks its social contract with the people, what obligation do the people have then to that society, I wonder."   As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Written toward: "Life on Giant Moons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-iMYvTilQ   More on this project: https://www.rowelit.com/sci-fi-weeklies   If you prefer to read rather than listen or w...

"Not many humans who have ever lived can lay claim to saving a trillion lives."   Written toward the topic:  "Superweapons" Video: Coming Soon As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!   This story is the 2nd part of a two-part saga; check out part 1 first:   The Wizard of Athos:  https://youtu.be/0kUDAYj6P-o   If you prefer to read rather than listen or would li...

“I’m not the monster you’ve pegged me for, Burch. I’m the monster you send after that monster.”   Written toward the topic:  "Small Modular Reactors" Video: Coming Soon As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!   Also, check out these related stories if you'd like to explore these characters and themes further:   The Misfits: https://youtu.be/mb5ShuIk0Ww The Firs...

“Mountain doesn’t care how you feel about it, Key. You gotta stand on your skis either way.”   Written toward the topic:  "Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipQ1c6jTjIc As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!   Also, check out the related stories on "The Lifeboat" playlist if you'd like to explore these characters and t...

"I examined the concept of friendship among humans, and there was only one thing I couldn’t do for Mouse that a human could: as constituted, I could never care for him."   Written toward the topics:  "Rogue Planets" & "Unusual Friendship" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOu3zGfP-TQ Check out Isaac Arthur's SFIA video: Life on Rogue Planets!   If you prefer to read rather than listen or woul...

It’s a funny business you’ve gotten yourself into, kid—reading the layers of time hidden in objects.”   Written toward the topic:  "Space Archaeology / The Future of Archeology" Video: As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!   Also, check out these related stories if you'd like to explore these characters and  themes further:   The Misfits: https://youtu.be/mb5...

"How many people do you know who’ve survived an apocalypse? Seems to me that’s a useful skill in itself."   Written toward the topic:  "Surviving an Apocalypse" Video: forthcoming 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 though my Su...