How to Disappear Completely | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- "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."
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme!
Written toward the SFIA theme: "What Are Ancestor Simulations...and are we living in one?"
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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!
(Neither this channel nor this video are affiliated with or endorsed by Isaac Arthur or SFIA; the author’s just a big fan)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another 5 star story! Thx!
Thanks, Vicki!
Love all your stories. Been a subscriber for a while. I think i might know your dad or its an amazing coincidence. He and i werent always on the same side at work but he was supportive of his sons creative dreams. I respected that. Anyhow you keep at it you have the talent. That and some luck and you will be recognized.
Thanks, David! Weirder coincidences have happened. Glad to hear you're enjoying 🙏😃
I really like your writing. Thank u for sharing your work
Thanks for the kind words, bird. I appreciate the feedback!
Had to pause, holy hell, relating that line in How to Dissapear Completely to the feelings of someone laying dead or dying on the floor, being told with the gruff, "fed up with it" expression of a homicide detective.... I mean nobody can practice for a hole-in-one, you either make it, or you dont.
That was a f*cking hole-in-one. Planets aligned for that line. Unbelievable. Well done.
Unpausing now :p
Cheers, Steven!
All dialogue and executed beautifully. Great job Rowe, I loved it.
Cheers, MJ. Glad you liked it! That's an early one I wrote mostly in a hospital parking lot--a story outside the story. Thankfully both the story and the patient turned out fine 😃
McKayla
Introduction of a 2nd person with just one word!
Explosion of characters and story world.
You dare to say "You have not been there till you've been there." At the moment it strikes me as a Casey Stengle.
Effective! Good!
Thanks, Martin! He was a little before my time 😃 but the classics are usually classics for good reason.
He said things like : Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
(Manager for NY Yankees)
Ang longtime catcher.
Beth Henshaw nailed it for me. I too have read the old works and yes, you do remind me of the style. It's sort of like I'm back in high school scouring the library for something new. I really connect with your work. You don't suppose I'm being transported back to a long ago time and just don't realize it?
🤔Could be, Charles...Stranger things have happened on this channel 🤣 Really glad you're enjoying!
Beantown Sci-Fi Noir is now my favorite genre.
Dahk Boston 😃
Thank you. Short stories work best for me. This was good 😊
Thanks, V's! Glad to hear it 🙏😃
Sweet, I love sci-fi noir. Thank you.
Thanks, MadderHat. Glad you do!
I can't believe you know Kid A: How to disappear completely. (I did not)
Blows my mind.
Thanks, Martin.
Good story. Different
Wow, a discourse on existentialism and simulation theory with a backdrop of crime drama and life lessons tied into analysis of a Radiohead song. Can't say I've heard that before. ...I still find myself wondering if he was about to tell her that indeed she was a simulation. Nice!
Yeah, Wes, thanks! That was in interesting week!
Is this early, or is my week almost over again?!?!
Not sure, Keith! This is an old one😃
More of these two.
This is a fascinating simulacrum... or is it?
Well done.
Very engaging!
"So what's the point?"
"I forget.'
"Radiohead..."
Nice way to transition to the ending of the story!
Thanks, Martin! 😃
cool beans, Uncle Mike
😄Thanks, Felicity!
I grew up reading the old science fiction classics from the 1930s onwards. I don't know what it is, but your writing has a similar feel to it. It's as though I've found an old friend.
Thanks, Beth! That's such high praise! If I were to venture an honest guess, (in addition to my literary background) my undergrad degree was in Classics, and specifically, I translated Ovid. So I share similar literary foundations, I think, to the older writers than perhaps most contemporary sci-fi writers. That's just a guess, though.
Thanks!
Thank you, E!
Yep excellent
Cheers, D!
Awesome
Thanks, Michael!
Good story
Thanks,, MC! Glad you enjoyed it
Read "The white Plague" by Frank Herbert on how to disapear.
Thanks for the recommendation, Ronald. Love Frank Herbert's writing but haven't read that one.
I really liked this one. It was a philosophical tale wrapped up in a murder mystery with just a touch of real science and science fiction. May I ask how many words/pages are these. I do not have a way to record any of my stories but I wonder since in the last few years I've written almost 25 short, 2 to maybe 8 pages on google docs... actually I've written over half by hand since I'm old and actually enjoy doing that.
Thanks, Leah. Word count on these ranges, generally 5000-10,000 on the long ones. I'd say I average around 6,500 per week. I wrote my first book like that, longhand in notebooks. That brings me back.
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Cheers, Martin 🙏😃
M CEN CA here know 😮
🛸Light speed 😂
Mark CEN CA I've been having a hard time mentally PE which has effected my ability to enjoy your storys it appears I did like metal I'm sure things will get better it always does it seems hope this finds you doing well 💕 PE
Thanks, Mark! All good here 🙏😃 Laughter, sunlight, and exercise are the best medicine in my experience.
@@RoweLit Mark CEN CA I'm funny most of the time get sun but I have bad physical problems that stops me from getting a lot of exercise do what I can though thanks for your encouraging words they are appreciated
I am surely no expert
But why haven’t i seen your stories in a movie or TV.
I like how the girls sound like girls and not a dude.
Thanks, AB! Maybe someday 😄