Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.Rowe
Episodes
Refuge | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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,...
The Edge of the Abyss | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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, t...
Bird on Mars | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 t...
Tomorrow Next Year | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 occ...
TechJools | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
Lime Harbor | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 t...
The Lights of Guldenberg | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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!...
The Next Layer | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
07 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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: "Failsa...
Failsafe | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 y...
.EXP | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 inspiri...
The Rings of Floriston | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
The Numbers Between 9 & 8 | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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, than...
More Lies in Darkness | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 d...
Culicidae | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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 abo...
Becoming | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"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 rela...
Kappa Paradox | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"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. "Kapp...
Cupcakes! | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"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,...
Kappa Salvage | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"It was a mystery as much discussed by school children as it was among researchers, scientists, and professors, much like the sunken city of Atlantis ...
The Prospectors | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Masters of the inner world, hopeless in the real world. People who can’t do for themselves have to manipulate the ones who can." As always, thanks...
Stewards of the Drawdown | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The moment we changed them, we changed them forever. It is the same with us. Have none of you thought about what we must be to this mysterious race o...
The Futility of Cycling | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Space’s business is entropy, and it carries out its business with relentlessness and utter indifference to our best laid plans. Aspiring explorers ...
Playing the Sondomme | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The other part is music. It’s still the most mysterious force in the universe—why these sounds should make anyone feel anything, it’s astoundin...
How to Disappear Completely | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Bad things only happen to somebody else until you’re there. Then there’s no such thing as somebody else anymore. Somebody else becomes somebody."...
Dark Station | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Yes, she still had all that debt to deal with, but there’s a way back from debt. There’s no way back from dead." As always, thanks to Isaac Arth...
To Geddes | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Better to own being a donkey for a day than to deny it and become one on a permanent basis." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for...
The Light in Heavy Basin | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I learned early on that authority wasn’t in the weapon you wielded or even in the way that you wielded it." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and t...
Empress of Shadow | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
26 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"It was both an exciting discovery and a terrifying one, for it seemed that the flame burned no longer, and no sign remained of the creators of the wo...
Singular | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"We couldn’t wait for the machines to save the world when we were perfectly capable of doing it ourselves." As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and th...
Preservation Falls | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The closest we can come to such truth in your words is that the foundational reality of the physical universe is the mobius strip." As always, thanks...