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Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.Rowe
Original science fiction short stories written and read by author P.E. Rowe. Subscribe and stop by weekly for a new story, or browse the catalog for a sci-fi story from a broad range of themes and styles.
Episodes
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Dreamers | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“We cannot be gods in our own galaxy.” Written toward the topic: “Virtual Utiopias” If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, full…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweLetter Hopping | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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: Misfits Season 1…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweViscosity & Stone | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 in the dark of…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweContraband | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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/watch?v=dAtI35TWHro…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweCrusher Tanzing | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 check out the full…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Salt Mine | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweInertia | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“Ideas are just dreams without logistics.” Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpGbaF3kbc…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Chameleon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“One day soon, we’ll light this entire galaxy on fire.” Thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Brave One | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 listen or would like to read…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweAthos | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 the full series…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweOld Folks | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 in "The Misfits"…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Ancients | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 Episode 14 in "The…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Mystery Box | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“The sisters hardly ever talked about the infuriating reality that sometimes the most significant moments remain unanswerable and unexplained.” Thanks to Isaac…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweHow Far the Future Moon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“Every man, in memory, eventually recedes into some forgotten army.” As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic! Video…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Actual War | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 full series here…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweEmpty Fields | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 audience-selected topic…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweSafe Returns | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 check out the full…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweFleeing Eden | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 always, thanks to…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweWelcome to the Future | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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 Misfits" series. If…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweWhy Neptune? | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“The only choices left are choices that aren’t choices.” Written toward the topic: "Near Term Space Colonization" Video…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweTarget | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweHelicon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweDancing Down the Universe | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"The old borders, entirely dark but for the light we shed on them, now seemed meaningless." Written toward the topic: "The Last Planet" Video…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweChasing Ghosts | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweFirst Day New Ship | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“Good people don’t get to do what they want. They do what they must.” Written toward the topic: "Dropships & Drop Pods" Video…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweMurder Mill | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweSurety | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweEmbargo | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweBaye Column | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweGo Easy | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"You must understand that your existence, such as it is now, will challenge the culture." Written toward the topic: "Artificial Afterlives" Video…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweArchangel | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
This story is episode 7 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweDrop Mine | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Vault | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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.”…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweTop Sushi | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweAida the Swan | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweTelescope | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweProper Company | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
This story is episode 5 in "The Misfits" series. If you haven't yet, you can check out the full series here…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweSchism | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweDark Swarm | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweWizard of Athos | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweScion: Year of the Dragon | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
“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"…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweMouse of Small Things | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweArchaeologix | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Misfits | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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"…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweExos: Before the War | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweLost on Port Cullen | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 SFIA team…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweDoug vs. Doug | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe First Man | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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: "Legacy"…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweLegacy | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 inspiring theme!…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweGarbage Rock | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 theme! Based…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweDarkness | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"From the right perspective, viewed at the right time, an observer would witness a disturbance in the light from the stellar backdrop—an anomaly." As always…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweAge of Deception | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 Isaac…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweRefuge | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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, thanks…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Edge of the Abyss | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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, then you…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweBird on Mars | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 team for…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweTomorrow Next Year | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 occasion…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweTechJools | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 to Isaac…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweLime Harbor | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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 the SFIA…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Lights of Guldenberg | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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! Based on…
Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.RoweThe Next Layer | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
"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: "Failsafe" is…