The Brave One | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2024
- “If we still have our minds and our hearts and each other, whatever comes next, we’ll be fine.”
Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!
Video: • Damaged Spacecraft & S...
Written toward the topic: “Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers”
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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!
Thanks for stopping by!
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Judging the confusion,chaos,instability and the constant threat of war.I believe that I would take a trip on the Brave One anytime.
Thanks, KennyJoe! I'd take a ticket on that cruise too 😃
I would, too. Experiences are one thing we get to keep and if there is more after I expect they will go with us.
KennyJoe, keep that recliner warm. I’m doing the same here.
InscrutableJohn
Never give up brave one. Happy new year to you and to all of your closest family and friends and not to be left out your subscribers/viewers.
😃Cheers, Mario! 🙏
I would like to add my thanks to the growing number of other listeners who are enjoying your work. I'm looking forward to hearing more in the coming year. Thank you for sharing your remarkable talent.
Thank you, Andrew! It's a great pleasure to be able to share my work 😃
Woo! Happy to hear Mechanics of Fiction Writing is getting some love. It’s both very different from typical internet writing advice and extremely insightful. I would love to see more in the Rowe Writes series.
Thanks, MJ! More Rowe Writes is on the way. I've had one recorded for "The Vault" for ages and haven't had a chance to edit the audio. Soon. Also thinking about doing one for "Mouse." We'll see how the next few weeks go.
Sweetness in Audible FunZies. I Muchly Thankya Brudder Grasshopper @@RoweLit
Cheers, Chung Low! 🙏 Glad you enjoyed 😃
I love these. You’re really talented. And I don’t say that often. Who cries at short stories? Apparently I do.
Edit: I just read your Amazon bio. Yeah. 2 Masters degrees in Literature ? You def didn’t need my opinion😂
Thanks, Kitka! It's a joy to share them 😃 Edit: That doesn't mean I don't value your opinion, though. Also, I think a lot of people cry over stories when they find them meaningful. Humbled when they're mine 🙏
@RoweLit I too admire and enjoy the writing, concepts explored, excellent tension and emotional build/ release, and the very pleasant narration. Having read 50 years of books not sure I ever said that before.
As for my comment "it was a dark and stormy night".
Mr. Rowe can weave well rounded characters that you actually care about and dynamic adventures through a plethora of fantasticaly intricate solar systems full of high drama, emotion, and just great stories that i truly enjoy and am grateful to have found his talent! The earth is a brighter place for having him in it!
Wow, Louis! That's sure something I aspire to. It's very moving to know you feel that way 🙏 Thank you. I feel blessed to be able to share my work 😃
Thank you for sharing your craft with us. I bought several copies of your book and am passing them out, asking they be paid forward. I love to hear the next story. I love your AI artwork btw;) CJ
Thanks, CJ! I appreciate the support 🙏😃
I keep finding more titles I didn’t catch due to the weighting of the YT selection algorithm. It’s great to be able to say that I’ve yet to read a dud. I’m not sure how P.E. has managed to get a hit with every pitch, but I’m enjoying my good fortune. Not many folks I know read SCIFI, but the couple I do have gotten my recommendations and I’ve been told they lied what they read.
About a million years ago I wrote a SCI-FI multi part story that I’m proud to say got rejected too many time LD to count. So I’m now living vicariously through the positive feedback on this channel even though I’ve got nothing to do with it. I do say proud though, because when I started it i did follow through with more than one submission and ten times as many re-writes.
So, Rowe
Here you go!
Your work is great.
I’ve been rejected enough
To know!
Thank you.
Thanks, John! I have no major secrets. All of them are in my Mechanics series on my other channel 😃 One thing that's for sure though is every writer who sticks with it knows what rejection after rejection feels like, including myself. Once upon a time I pinned my form rejections to the wall to motivate me. For the record, though, I have to admit the positive feedback in these comments is far higher octane fuel 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Thank you!!! Best sci-fi!!
Cheers, Nota! 🙏😃
Thank you, P. E. Rowe, for sharing your gifts. You are my favorite modern writer.
Thanks, Alfred! That means a lot 🙏 I'll aspire to live up to it!
Gotta add to other comments. Your technical approach to problem solving suggests you can be handy at any level of tech. Feels like real science (fiction). I think Asimov's and EE Doc Smith would be proud (and I could use a hand fixing the projects in my garage.
Thanks, Johnny! Would it surprise you to hear that I was inspired to write a story like this by working on my brakes in November? 😂 Fortunately, I didn't have to live in my car for the three days I was working on it!
Starting the new year off strong. This has serious "Poseidon Adventure" vibes. Well done.
Thanks, Grey Ghost! 🙏😃 We'll try to keep it up all year!
He’s back. Happy New Year man. Looking forward to enjoy your stories in 2024. I did like 14 hours on the Misfits compilation.
Thanks, MB! Yes, we're back! I am excited for '24 🎉 Can't wait to see where it goes 😃
A good story with fair suspense mitigated by intelligence and preparedness. Welcome back this New Year and I'm looking forward to a 2024 with your imaginings and narrations. Tally-ho 😊!!
Thanks, Casard! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Thanks for the best birthday gift. Always a great story!
Happy Birthday, GSooke! Hope it was a good one 😃
This was my introduction to your channel! Thank-you! I really enjoyed this story and look forward to exploring all of your works.
Thanks, Kristi! Welcome 😃 There's lots to explore now! And much more to come. Hope you enjoy!
Having been a lover of science fiction for.75 years, you are a favorite up there with Asimov and Bradbury and Lewis. Ive read all the good ones. Love your work and i know whats is good.
Thanks, Linda 🙏😃Humbling to read such a thing, as those are some heavy names in my book! The best I can aspire to is write the best I can each week and hope it connects with people in a meaningful way. Glad to hear it did with you!
In the words of Dak Prescott -" HERE WEEE GOOO!" Another great story and I eagerly look forward to more. Especially more about what happened with Birch? You Goo Roowe! Enjoying it all!
Thanks, MrIzzy! Yeah... Here we go! 😃 The fun part of looking back on 2023 was realizing I had no idea where it would take us. If 2023 is any indication, I think we'll meet some interesting new people in some amazing new places 🚀
Aye Captain ( anticipating the space pirates lol) We're ready take us for a ride.
dang Cowboys Daked the bed that was horrible. sorry to conflate football with your beautiful story. Well as for the next. story about space pirates - can we get a parrot on the shoulder - if its not too late. parrots are amazing.
Ha! Parrots are amazing, yes, but sadly no parrots 🦜or even robo-parrots in this one.
dang - any ho ho ho and a bottle of rum! maybe?
Yippy! We're going on an adventure...
Thank you, P. E. Rowe
All the surviving 'Brave Ones' sure are lucky you are their author.
Thanks, Karl! I suppose you could take the opposite position too 😂 I'm not sure I'd like to be a character in one of my books, let alone somebody else's!
Excellent. I hope this story will develop. good luck for 2024 and beyond
Thanks, Peter! To you as well 😃
I’m back from a break from the channel for a few months. I loved the misfits and just finished listening to the recap and am now back and enjoying the brave one. I’m now ready to get back into the new stories can’t wait thanks for sharing. 🇦🇺🌌
Cheers, Dean! Welcome back 😃🎉
Just heard it. Fantastic. Well done and welcome back.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Thanks, Dave! Glad you enjoyed 😃 To you as well!
I know you're targeting sci-fi writers, but I really can't wait til scientists start graduating from your course. They really need it.
Thanks Fellover! Very curious 🤔 For scientific writing, or for fiction writers who are scientists? I've spent a lot of time trying to develop writing pedagogy in STEM disciplines. So I can vouch 😂
@@RoweLit I mean for science writing, but there is inevitable crossover, both in terms of scientists having fun and sci fi fans becoming encourged to enter science. Take Carl Sagan, for example. Far more people can quote a line from Contact than from Demon Haunted World. The current state of affairs is intolerably high scientific illiteracy.
Oh, man, Sagan. "That's here. That's home. That's us. ..." Never got credit as deserved for the prose stylist he was, but that essay is among the most beautiful and profound composed in any language, much less English. Should be required reading/listening/watching for humans. Humans. czcams.com/video/GO5FwsblpT8/video.html
One of one.
Great story again!
Cheers, MB 😃
I’ve really missed you PE. Welcome back.
Cheers, Steve! Thanks 😃
looking forward to the new year and more of your mini masterpieces and working through the writers series, thanks as always Roe
Cheers, Notfooled! I hope for mini-masterpieces 🙏😃 That's the goal each week.
Woo hoo! You’re back. I’m pumped.
Thanks, Darnell! Me too! 🚀
Good story pal. Keep it up.
Thanks, Sarcasmo! 😃 Will do my best!
Good story 🙂
Thank you 😊
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Cheers, Les! 😃
Just subscribed to your mechanics of fiction channel - looking forward to learning new things!!! And wow an excellent story as we enter 2024, full of tension, anticipation, hope and deliverance. Awesome!!!
Thanks, Richard! I hope you find it useful and informative. Glad you enjoyed the premiere for the year! 😃
So maybe soon P.E. will be your favorite class?
@@MrIzzyDizzy that is a very good pun!!!
@@rlbf1967 Thanks .I can be kind of punny sometimes.
Stoked for the upcoming videos!
Cheers, Crayfish! I can't wait to write them 😃
Another great one!!!!
Thanks, Lisa! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Great story my friend!
Thanks, Todd! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Thank you Rowe.
Cheers, Robert!
Now i'm excited about the rest of 2024 and i'm catching up fast !:-)
Thanks, Barry! 🚀😃
Here’s to a future year of delights 🍻
Cheers, Philip! 😃
Yeah, that sounds great! But have you ever had chocolate? LOL. Great story!
Thanks, Keith! Not just chocolate ... space chocolate! 😃
Magic, Thank you
Thanks, Chaz! 😃
Great story - Much enjoyed
Cheers, Derek! Glad to hear it 😀
1st one for the new year... #ScreamsLikeAteenageGirl!! I got my book btw thanks!!
Awesome! Thanks, Garfield. I hope you enjoy it 😃
@@RoweLit noway man!! I'm vacuum sealing it and storing it for the inevitable day it becomes a best seller... then I can boast that I have a first edition copy!! 😁
Thank you so much. Damn that was good
Thanks, Ty! Glad you enjoyed 😃
Cool.
Cheers, Martin!
Thanks, great story.
Cheers, Martin! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Good story! U put the rad in radiation. 😹💚🐝🐝
Cheers, Bbergster! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏😃
Excellent
Cheers, D Z!
P E. Rowe; Glad to see you and I seem aligned regarding scheduling logistics. 😅 ❤
Oh, my goodness, Tara. I'm trying to keep on track 😂
Hooked on Rowe!
Cheers, Michael!
excellent
Thanks, Ligurian!
See what happens when you forget to take an umbrella?
Cheers, MH! Can lead to a tough day 😮
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Thanks ,good story....the ending was a bit sudden ,or did i fall asleep ?
Cheers, Ananamu! Can't vouch for you, but the characters did 😃 Maybe that's why it seemed a bit sudden.
Is this the Yankee Chaos !?
Negative, Shipmate. The Yankee-Chaos won't be around for another fifty years or so. There are many noble ships in the Battery, Hartley 😃
50 years?Stranger things have happened. Between leap year and daylight savings time do really know what time it is? Nevermind a sun in a suitcase and a black hole inside an ancient ship hidden amongst dusty asteroids that has the ability to send us anywhere at anytime for an undisclosed amount of time. I was sort of expecting the bipahl that is the Ship Yankee Chaos who can also take human form was about to come out of the storage hold with the sabaka sticks saying" Time we don't need no stinking time."
Enjoyed your writing. Tried to like but it would not register.
Cheers, Howard 🙏😃 Not sure how many likes a comment is worth, but in my book it's a lot! Thank you.
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I feel like I'm listening to Frank Herbert.
Another giant! 🙏
My sister ?
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Stop using AI and I will subscribe back to your channel. That AI not-art is driving me crazy.
Thanks for the feedback, Shane. I'd love to, but at this stage, that's just not possible right now. I couldn't afford to commission an artist for every thumbnail, as much as I wish I could. Best I can do is commit to making sure my book covers are made by a talented, working human artist. If it drives you crazy to see, the stories are on audio only through my Substack link.
Beautifully written. Your ability to end the story inducing so much emotion is masterful. I love how you tie into almost forgotten details and make them into profound moments.
Every passenger provided something- insight, conversation, drone skills, etc. an athlete that had no beneficial knowledge and even rarely mentioned in the story played the most important role in the very end. A role that required what only she could provide at the most extreme time of need. 🤌
Thanks for such thoughtful feedback, Ragzbot! 🙏 So much of a story is in the details. Glad you enjoyed this one😃