The Salt Mine | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
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- “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: • Reality Manipulation
Written toward the topic: “Reality Manipulation”
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About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story to the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this, I have fun writing them, and most importantly, the audience enjoys!
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We might just see a couple familiar characters from today's story 🤔😃
This is your 80 year old fan again, loving another story. Thank you.
Cheers, Linda! 🙏😃
"They were salt miners, posting mean comments on the Internet that causes others to post huge angry walls of text. Good people. "
Serious note, this has massive Methuselah's Children and Lazarus Long vibes. Well done.
Good people 🏆 Greyghost for the win 🤣🤣🤣
Life is a series of wonderful adventures!
Indeed 😃
I love how this story fills out more of Clem's character but adds some questions about Verona's.
See you next Thursday!
Cheers, Tara! Maybe more on this next Thursday too 🤔
@@RoweLit Excellent plan! You know I'll be here for it. Thank you for giving each week one bright spot I can look forward to. 🤗
Rowe, love your work as always. I would like to see Top Sushi made as a one off film. The right nerd looking guy to be Gruber, the right mousy looking sort of hot/weird gal to be Jackie Earmuffs. Danny Devito to be the restaurant owner. Probably the cohens to direct. “Battle!”
Cheers, Pharming! I'm not sure how I'd feel about that 🤣 Might be too surreal for me to handle 🤣Jackie Earmuffs IRL? Oh boy!
I can't believe I'm just hearing about this channel now :) Nice work!
Hi, Isaac! Thanks. Big fan, obviously 😃
The Isaac Arthur? You are the Inspiration man.!! Do our hero a solid and mention him on your show. he deserves it!
It puts into practice much whereof you speak.
I’m surprised you haven’t chatted to the originator before.
I follow both of your things, and find them interesting in their own ways.
Very little overlap.
There is nothing like a thief that has regrets about what they stole.
Cheers, Keith! Sometimes you get more than you bargained for 😨 or stole, as the case may be 😃
Awesome, my most favourite day of the week, the day that PE Rowe releases another adventure...
Cheers, MDS!
It was late evening in the vast slowly cooling desert. A lone figure walked slowly toward the sunset. As the sun fell the cold began to close in and he pulled his thin cloak closer. A thousand shades of red filled the horizon near the red orb as it slowly set. He looked toward the sky for direction. The sky looked like red and blue ink had been spilled across it. As the colors faded to black the stars slowly showed themselves one by one twinkling with great brilliance. It was so calm, quiet, and black in the night of the desert that he could barely make out the shapes around him.
This has got to be one of your best stories totally enjoyed it.
Cheers, Dan! Glad you liked it 😃
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Thanks.Your stories make my day.
Cheers, KennyJoe! 😃
Across the desert, on foot, he drifted. The slight figure of a young man, he strolled casually forward, as the sand shifted below his feet. As the sand drifted down the windward face of a tall dune, a short distance up ahead on the left he could hear pebbles roll from the rocks above. He thought, “It is probably just a lizard or scorpion. My many trips into the desert have taught me the difference between them and a man. My fear has dissipated over the years as I have become accustomed to the sounds of the desert night. I can barely see my feet. I am thankful to the Lord for the faint moonlight.”...
Poor little Clem... The immortal sad boy. He and Verona make a nice pair.
Thank you, P. E. Rowe.
Cheers, Karl! We shall see ... 🤔
@@RoweLit :P
Another phenomenal story,you sir have a way with words making your characters seem so real as if to say that could be me. The delima of Clem Abali or Vandel Savage 😅 if you watch DC is what too do with all that time, me personally I'd be conquering worlds no joke no lie 😊
Cheers, Darrel! I think everyone knows what my plan would be 😂
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"Do you ever get tired of writing sci-fi stories? This is year 47,000 of Sci-Fi Weeklies."
Rowe: No
@@RoweLit Outstanding 💪
Thank You again 😉🖖🏻😌
Cheers, Nemo!
Thanks for giving us a glimpse into Aballis life & hiw he became an immortal & yet he is very different than Verona. Love the mystery sandwich & layers of Verona/Aballi
Cheers, Joan Mary! I never would have guessed it when he came barging into that vault last year 😂 They're quite the pair!
Thank you. I like this. Great imagination. 😊❤❤😊
Cheers, Barb! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
One of the most powerful thoughts in this story is Clem’s idea that he should keep certain truths, like his identity, from the Howards. This lie while on the surface seems wrong was not, because to tell the whole truth would not do anyone other than Clem any good. He recognized that to tell the truth was really only a selfish act to relieve his own guilty feelings. It was better overall that he suffered his guilt than use “telling the truth” as an excuse for his own good, because, again, no other good could come of it.
On the surface it seems that always be truthful is the best course of action. Most times it is. But when the person telling the truth is the only one who benefits, and moreover, at the cost of other’s feelings or safety, is the real wrong thing to do.
Living well and honestly can preclude having to make this kind of decision, but circumstances cannot always be controlled in such a way as to never find one’s self in this position. I have a special respect for those who are able to bear such pain when it is actually the seed of their destruction. Though it is also a great sadness that separates some from others for what seems to be “fate’s” directives.
I hope PER continues to write stories that lead to such disclosures of how not simple the world really is.
Thanks, John. One of the most elegant descriptions of what the prefrontal cortex does comes from Sapolsky, and it might as well stand in for a few definitions--wisdom, morality maybe. I might butcher it, but it's something like: the prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that enables you to do the right thing when the doing the right thing is the hard thing. Pretty deep philosophy for a neurology class.
@@RoweLit Absolutely! And isn’t amazing that it’s possible for that to happen? How? Just does that work? Human biology is amazing in all its detail, but the brain is wicked crazy, so to speak. Sadly, I made this body from spare parts, JB Weld, baling wire and duct tape. So it doesn’t always behave as intended.
Another wonder! :)
Cheers, Saulius 😃
I think you’re fantastic Mr. Rowe! I would love to hear your take on a story. Similar to “The Beginning” (short story) by Henry Hasse. But the story of an early prehistoric pre-human earth man. Maybe a giant/hybrid race of some sort from earth. Pre-flood sort of world full of mystery. Breathtaking megalithic stone structures. That the simple being who maybe is the last of a dying breed. Would discover this advanced but abandoned civilization. But on earth in a far distant past. A human like thinking race but not human. But different thinking maybe more superstitious and living hand to mouth. Stumbling through the already ancient ruins. And he would eventually be discovered. By an advanced non earth based race. That recognizes this being as the last of his race and civilization. And seeks to preserve him somehow…. Anyway, I love pre-flood mythology of more advanced civilizations. Anyway you’re awesome keep up the great work.
Thanks, Justin! I've got a pair of stories you might like if you haven't checked them out yet: "Becoming" and "Stewards of the Drawdown." I think they check almost all your boxes minus the megaliths. I definitely need to work some megaliths into the channel lore somehow! Tragic oversight 😲Thanks for the Hasse recommendation.
Great story again!
Cheers, MediaBot! 😃
Your work is great!
Thanks, Aaron!
Hiya P. E., thanks for the story. Good counseling session. Room for thought...
Cheers, Casard 😃
This was NOT a sci-fi, but a business story.
Amazing
Cheers, Michael!
Thank you another great story my friend!
Thanks, Todd! Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏😃
Backstories are very organic to me !:-) 💜
Thanks, Barry! Hopefully for the characters as well 🤣
"Time is not what you think it is."
That took me straight to the Entity's final revelation on Reality: The Mobius Strip.
- Preservation Falls
Question: they both have the nanites in common/baseline. Still, Clem seems to be orders of magnitude more powerful. How discrepant are they, both being immortal?
(I don't understand how Clem dares to blame Verona. Don't explain it. I just think its a nice touch.)
You don't have to answer this as the purpose is to leave it somewhat open to interpretation, I suspect.
I have no specific compliment today as the way you're pulling the audience in speaks for itself - it's all in the comments.
2024 has much in store as promised!
I wanted to comment on Inertia but I couldn't. I can't. It's still sinking in!
Cheers, Holzman! Part of Aballi's difference comes from the tech he stole and has been using for centuries (more nanotech), but a big part of what makes him so different is his freedom from the constraints of the Verona's sect's training. Their goal is to be invisible. He has other thoughts on that 😂
I’ll never be able to grasp how there is no sound in space⚡️😹. It’s like ‘if a tree falls in the woods does it make a noise?’
No sound; therefore, space isn't real 😮 Oh, no! 😂
Beautiful tale.
Cheers, Crayfish! More to follow soon.
Interesting to find out more about Clem. The story where he Brendan's immortal was one of the first I listened to.
Thanks, Sheila! More to come soon 😃
Like the death of the salesman from the perspective of a AGI
Nice work by the way Mr Rowe
Like a freaks and Geeks Robot Academy making a punk band in a robot testing facility
Thanks, Jude! Glad you enjoyed 😃
Excellent
Man this is good stuff!
Thanks, John!
Excellent as always!! And yep these long-lived characters ease the load on their poor memories by offloading to external means 😃 Hmmm will we meet someone called Dorian at some point in this universe? ;-)
Dorian Prime 😂 He builds robots that get progressively uglier and rustier.
@@RoweLitdefinitely sounds like a uK prime minister lol
@@rlbf1967 or a US president
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Thanks, Maurice!
Took the day off from rock hopping PE😂 but im here now after this its bed time for bonzo Mark CEN CA over 😮
Ok one more Mark
I know that feeling 😂
Hat.
Is this a reference to The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat?
Oliver Sachs?
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Always keep 90% of your stuff underneath, like an ice berg.
“Or a hat” spins off that, for those who have the competence to consume it.
Is there a story that explains ring drives?
I think I know how the are supposed to work. 🤔
Thanks, Michael! There are a couple stories that deal with engines, probably "To Geddes" is the closest that discusses the ring drive. "Scion" and "How Far the Future Moon" are both about different space engines 🚀😃
Mark CEN CA 😮
I'm Mark CEN CA 😂 ah yes clem 😮
I'd give up and stay in bed.
That's next week's story, wherein brooding Clem Aballi stays in bed for three decades and gets kicked off Athos for being verbally abusive to the room service staff. "You call that a paella, chef? It's garbage." 🤣