Legacy | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2023
- "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 another great topic!
Written toward: "Planetary Terraforming" Video: • Planetary Terraforming...
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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)
Dipping in again randomly in the dark at the end of a day.. Fortunately my aging memory cannot hold the details, it's almost like listening for the first time. Which is marvelous. 😊
Cheers, Cecile! To be fair, even I can't keep the details straight sometimes after 80 stories! And I used to think my memory was pretty good 😂
This was wonderful! Made me choke up, cry, laugh and be proud to be human again, a feeling I haven't had in years.
It erased 60 years of being battered by life, made cynical by liars and hypocrites, battling poverty, death of loved ones, and god damn it, capable of getting up tomorrow and doing life with all I have left...until it drops me in mid stride or my mustang kills me with his wildness, which I love about him.
It feels like more than I've had for decades. Who knows? I may down all the trees attempting to reclaim my front pasture without a chain saw or a man.
Can you guess I'm an American looking for a frontier to pioneer? Holding my place no matter the threats.
Thank you for reminding me of who I really am. I only look like an arthritic 73 year old woman. Inside I'm Davy Crocket and Daniel Boone rolled into one. (Ask my encroaching neighbors).
Hope I can lay hands on my Kentucky rifle. More please. 😉
Hot damn, Shelley, you're getting me fired up! 😃 I'll put all that extra energy into the next story rather than chopping down trees (which, there are a few around here that could come down). So glad you enjoyed this story. I guess some of that pioneering American spirit has rubbed off on me somehow. I think it must have been Idaho 😄
This story reminds me of when i was a child living on a commune.
how was that ?
A fascinating yet bewildering choice of main character names, "Hayter"? Generating a negative 'ping' with each utterance.
Name choice or invention has always interested me. Plausible yet new names like "Hober Mallow" seem genius to me.
Good story, "For the SIX"
Cheers, Sailor. Glad you enjoyed this one. I think the negative ping may be a function of my American accent. When I say the character's name correctly: "Heder" pronounced like seder, it sounds identical to the way an American pronounces "hater," because we flap our Ts so often when the Ts fall mid-word like that. Not that I would have changed it, but it wasn't something I realized until I was editing the sound that week. I kind of like the cognitive dissonance it creates. I'm not much more than an amateur linguistics hobbyist, I suppose you could say, but I think you're right about neo-names, especially in sci-fi. One could make a fascinating study of the subject.
@@RoweLit thanks Mate, that makes sense!
@@RoweLitI, too, was wondering whether the name was spelled with a “d” or a “t”, which, for most Americans, sounds the same.
It’s so easy to visualize this story as you spin it!
Glad to hear it, Keith! Something I strive for 😃
Very well written. Many thanks for your work.
Cheers, David! Glad you enjoyed 😃
I never check Gmail. Thanks for the response. It's been years since I got anyone fired up but I remember a few hot ones found in low down juiced up bars referred to by one light heavyweight I lived with as "a hook, jab and a pour" bars.
Say, do you think rock and roll is here to stay?
I think Motown and Chuck Berry could have accomplished integration all by
themselves without burning down LA, Newark, Detroit ... Every gen grows up through crazy changing times. 😉🎶
I have not listened to this story yet. I have listened to a few others by you. I think you are a good writer; you have a good sense of Character and place, and the action is well thought out and seems to me to be consistent. I have been enjoyed your storytelling and feel a part of the action, and I get invested in the characters and their lives.
Thanks, Peter! Glad you're enjoying. Hope you liked this one too.
Thank You! 🌟
Cheers, Saulius 🙏 😃
You have hooked me!
Welcome, kennyjoe! So glad to hear it! 😃
Impactful.
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Wonderful story
Thanks, Ernest! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Great work ! Keep running brother
Every day! Thanks for the support!
My pleasure you make it ez. Shine on .
Excellent
Cheers, D!
great story
Thanks for listening, Felicity! Great handle, too, btw :-)
Thanks for your encouragement.
Most people are too dense to notice.
Never mind understand.
It takes a discerning eye ;-)
I very much appreciate your encouragement as well.
I was ingrossed in this saga🎧
Thanks, Emitt! Glad to hear it 😃
😢 so good
Cheers, Af! 🙏
Keep going
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Hader Floriston. Frances Sandow.
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Mark CEN CA I'm no good at navigating i. Just go here go there so I'm here now 😂😂
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First story good, second story boring.......
Thanks for the feedback, Patterson. That's part of the challenge writing a new story every week. Hopefully more click than don't for you. Thanks for listening!