Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.Rowe
Episodes
The Gift - II | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“The Gift” is an original science fiction story written and narrated by its human author -- Sci-Fi Weeklies. This scifi adventure was written and ...
Life Comes Fast | Sci-fi Audiobook
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Life Comes Fast” is an original science fiction story written and narrated by its human author. This sci-fi adventure, the Season 3 premiere of t...
The Gift - I | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“The Gift” is an original science fiction story written and narrated by its human author. This sci-fi adventure was written and read by P.E. Rowe ...
The Ledger | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“The Ledger” is an original science fiction short story written and narrated by its human author. This sci-fi adventure was written and read by P....
Heavy | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Heavy” is an original science fiction short story written and narrated by its human author. This space adventure was written and read by P.E. Row...
Commandeered | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Commandeered” is an original science fiction short story written and narrated by its human author. This space adventure was written and read by P...
The Poacher | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“The Poacher” is an original science fiction short story written and narrated by its human author. This space adventure was written and read by P....
15 Seconds | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“People vanish. I’d seen it happen before more than a handful of times, but never quite like that time in Ceronka.” Misfits Season 1 Complete Au...
ΘeoTechnus | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“The wisdom of the past should be respected, but it should not be worshipped.” Misfits Season 2 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/sZ2lvu3umsQ R...
Burning Rock | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s been good to us, this place.” Misfits Season 2 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/sZ2lvu3umsQ Rowe’s Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com...
In Plain Sight | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The spies I worried about stole trade secrets, and we had a lot of them.” Foundations: Misfits Book 2 now Available here: https://www.amazon.com/...
Second Impressions | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“On a day like today especially, eventually you’ve gotta trust somebody.” Episode 2 of the Cypher Sigma Series (Full Playlist link): https://you...
The Conscript | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the blasts and the bolts that miss us.” If you prefer to read rather than listen or would l...
The Angel Gven | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Nissim itself was a secret, but more, secrets and whispers surrounded the planet from the moment I arrived in Coronado.” Learn more about the man...
Death of the Word | Sci-fi Audiobook
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This story is Episode 32 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl-J...
The Petrozians | Sci-fi Short Audiobook | Mini Audio Drama
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Some people can’t figure out when they’re the clown and that it’s all a circus.” I recorded and produced today’s Mini Audio Drama usin...
The Art of History | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Our history has never been the truth as it was but the truth as we need it to be.” This story is Episode 31 of “The Misfits” series. All epis...
Day of Deception | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“This model space society, in Effelin Kal-Ennis’s twisted mind, had become the perfect opportunity to create a superweapon ...” This story is...
First Infiltration | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I’d like to part friends.” Rowe’s Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com/author/p.e.rowe Sci-Fi Collections: https://www.rowelit.com/collections-s...
Many Chambers | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Things never go like you imagine them.” This story is Episode 29 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full serie...
Demons | Sci-fi Audiobook
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Delusions don’t come in pairs.” This story is Episode 28 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here...
The Riven Child | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“At some point you either care enough to risk everything to solve the problem or you don’t.” Check out Nik Hein's take on the same story topic: ...
The Ira Twins | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Which god’s righteous wrath ordained in the space between these stars?” Written toward the topic: "Quantum Entanglement." Misfits Season 1 Comp...
Reciprocity | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Breathe deep. You have never been more alive.” As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://youtu....
Active Support | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Some doors, once they’re closed, they’re hard to open again.” Misfits Season 1 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/2vQHAeobemQ?feature=share...
The Dusters | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We were writing the final chapters of the Dussly shipyard, fitting I guess that they were proud chapters.” Misfits Season 1 Complete Audiobook: h...
To Iophos | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Doors open and close. A whole lot of them aren't by our doing.” This story is Episode 27 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can che...
Ascent | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Look what you have become; now marvel at the useless creature you were born as.” This story is Episode 26 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't...
Skin | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Every few decades or so, I’m reminded that I’m still made from human stuff.” Check out Nik Hein's take on the same story topic: Video: Wr...
Cobalt | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“When it comes down to the moment, this life’s not going to break you.” Special thanks to Isaac Arthur for selecting this special 100th episode'...
Osaka: The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“For as strikingly different as we are, we are all remarkably the same.” Misfits Season 1 Complete Audiobook: https://youtu.be/2vQHAeobemQ?feature...
Dark Charris II | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The universe is like water: eventually it finds its level.” This story is Episode 25 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can chec...
Among Thieves | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I promise to be honest with you if you promise to be honest with me.” Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video:...
Some Other Place | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Word of miracles spreads at the speed of whispers.” This story is Episode 24 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out th...
The Space Tower | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The space economy will grow at a rate beyond your wildest imagination once we have a foothold.” Today’s topic is the winner from June’s speci...
Dark Charris I | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Sometimes history is the story the people of the present need to believe about their past.” This story is Episode 23 in "The Misfits" series. ...
Breaking the Walk | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The walk is not easy.” Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP-mete9yT4 Wr...
That Human Flame | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“There is no larger truth than the one you are destined to find here, starting now, with these very people beside you.” This story is Episode 2...
Welcome Home | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You come to expect negativity from every direction, and you can either let it suck you under or try to become immune to it.” If you prefer ...
Concussion | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I believe the universe may be coming back together again.” For Collette. If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read alo...
The Cherry Coffin | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to who suggested topics and voted for another great topic! Written toward the topic: “Galactic Van Life” If you prefer to read rather ...
Metal | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Humans are purpose-driven creatures. When the purpose is existential, we grow sharp edges.” This story is Episode 21 in "The Misfits" series. ...
Human But Not Human, by P.E. Rowe | Sci-fi Audiobook | Full Length, Complete Novella
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 ca...
The Beginning | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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.”...
Codename Archimedes | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 pla...
Welcome w Moon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 anot...
Foundations | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 ...
Deep Space Assassin | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 Assass...
The Dreamers | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We cannot be gods in our own galaxy.” Written toward the topic: “Virtual Utiopias” If you prefer to read rather than listen or would ...
Letter Hopping | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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: ...
Viscosity & Stone | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 i...
Contraband | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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/wat...
Crusher Tanzing | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 che...
The Salt Mine | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 fo...
Inertia | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Ideas are just dreams without logistics.” Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The Chameleon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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....
The Brave One | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 liste...
Athos | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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...
Old Folks | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 i...
The Ancients | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 Epi...
The Mystery Box | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The sisters hardly ever talked about the infuriating reality that sometimes the most significant moments remain unanswerable and unexplained.” ...
How Far the Future Moon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Every man, in memory, eventually recedes into some forgotten army.” As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topi...
The Actual War | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 fu...
Empty Fields | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 audienc...
Safe Returns | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 chec...
Fleeing Eden | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 alwa...
Welcome to the Future | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 Mi...
Why Neptune? | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The only choices left are choices that aren’t choices.” Written toward the topic: "Near Term Space Colonization" Video: https://www.youtube....
Target | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 h...
Helicon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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"...
Dancing Down the Universe | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Chasing Ghosts | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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=bFx...
First Day New Ship | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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...
Murder Mill | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 ...
Surety | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 yo...
Embargo | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 mon...
Baye Column | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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: "Li...
Go Easy | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"You must understand that your existence, such as it is now, will challenge the culture." Written toward the topic: "Artificial Afterlives" Video: ...
Archangel | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Drop Mine | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Tough is worth something in our business, but tough and stupid will get you into trouble eventually." Written toward the topic: "Space Towers" Vid...
The Vault | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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...
Top Sushi | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Earth is for people, so they say.” Written toward the topic: "Hungry Aliens" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vrMiqFoWKY As always, tha...
Aida the Swan | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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: "Miscon...
Telescope | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 ...
Proper Company | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Schism | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 t...
Dark Swarm | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Not many humans who have ever lived can lay claim to saving a trillion lives." Written toward the topic: "Superweapons" Video: Coming Soon As al...
Wizard of Athos | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 Modula...
Scion: Year of the Dragon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Mountain doesn’t care how you feel about it, Key. You gotta stand on your skis either way.” Written toward the topic: "Advanced Spaceship ...
Mouse of Small Things | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Archaeologix | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a funny business you’ve gotten yourself into, kid—reading the layers of time hidden in objects.” Written toward the topic: "Space Ar...
The Misfits | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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: "Survivin...
Exos: Before the War | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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: ...
Lost on Port Cullen | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 S...
Doug vs. Doug | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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....
The First Man | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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: "Legac...
Legacy | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ins...
Garbage Rock | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
Darkness | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"From the right perspective, viewed at the right time, an observer would witness a disturbance in the light from the stellar backdrop—an anomaly." A...
Age of Deception | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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...