The Rings of Floriston | Sci-fi Short Audiobook
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- "You have to try to exist in the moment you’re in, while also seeing the place you’re inhabiting on the arc of civilization."
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What a poignant, touching love story… I found it a sweet, (without being saccharine) and uplifting tale of healing… and I’ve commented before, I love your dialogue
Thanks, Gabrielle. I'm glad you liked it. I suppose my attention to dialogue in writing is for all the times in life I wished I was quick enough to come up with the right thing to say. At least my characters can!
Sometimes an other's comment says it best.
You voiced the different characters perfectly. Great story as usual, and a delightful ending.
Thanks, Robot! Appreciate the encouraging words about the narration especially, as I'm not a trained speaker or voice actor. Just doing my best each week.
Thanks another great story and I do not usually care for love stories.
Thanks, Todd. I do not usually write them, so maybe that helps 😄 Glad you enjoyed!
This was well so written and flowed together so naturally. Nicely done and nicely delivered. Complex sci-fi as well as human psychology issues and the best ingredients for remedying a wounded soul : Kindness, patience, compassion and love. A timeless story.
Thanks, smde. So glad you enjoyed.
I love this story. This is a beautiful human love story.
Thanks, JoBeth! I'm happy you liked it 😃🙏
Such a kind story. Beautiful pacing. Made me cry with happiness.
Thank you, James. Glad you found it meaningful.
Wow! This is an incredible love story with sci-fi complications, and dialogue so earnest that you have no choice but to completely believe it's true.
Thanks, Wes!
P.E. Rowe rules. I love all the stories. I listen every night. My favorites are Burch and Caroline.
Thanks, Chad! So glad to hear you're enjoying them 😃🙏
Awww, my heart. What a beautiful story, I am so glad he found happiness at long last.
Cheers, Nicki! Glad you enjoyed it 🥰😃
You truly excelled yourself with this story. Wonderful, heart warming and sCompelling.
Thanks, Darrel! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙏😃
I so much enjoyed this happy ending to “The Numbers between 8 & 9”. Thank you for all your stories!
Thanks, Christof! He deserved a happy turn after so much strife 😃 So glad to hear you're enjoying them 🙏
Beautiful story
Thank you, Mike.
Amazing story. Glad to see he's doing well.
Thanks, Michael!
A great author who can also narrate to an impressive standard is a somewhat rare beast!
You're going to be the Asimov of the 21st century, I'm sure of it! 👍👌👏
Thank you, Paul! That comparison is humbling, for sure. I just strive to be the best Rowe I can be and hope that people enjoy the result 🙏😃
wonderful story
Thanks, Felicity. You have a knack for finding some of my favorites. Poor Bartleby needed a turn of luck following his tough times. So it felt right to help make it happen.
This is the first unabashed boy meets girl of yours I know about.
I thought the ...loops was going to be about beauty and sensitivity; but alas.
Don't stop doing what you're doing.
as good as it gets.....again. Thank You
Cheers, Charles! Glad this one seems to be as feel good a story for the reader as it was for the writer 😃
Thank you for a great and warm ending to a very enjoyable story!
Thanks, Daphne! Glad you enjoyed it 😃❤
Thanks for putting me on to part 2 cool story. Think I’ll listen to both again.
Thanks, Dean! Glad you liked the story pair. I felt like Bartleby needed a part 2 after getting stuck on that ship for so long 😃
This is my second, maybe third, listen and it’s every bit as awesome as my first. Really nice story.
Thanks, Ron! Glad to hear it. Something similar may be on the way this week 🤔
A sci fi love story
First i have ever heard. Mr rowe is becoming an good reader to. Thanks.
Thanks, David! Appreciate the compliment 🙏
"At this point we have no reason to think he's done anything wrong" after they forcibly disappeared him for being a loner. "Why are you so nervous?" WHAT?
Protagonist: literally kidnaps a man with military grade battle bots for the crime of being a loner
Loner: "I'm nervous and want to leave, why am I here?"
Protagonist: "No. Ha ha, we're the good guys!"
Yeah, gotta love having anxiety around people so people think you're up to something, the anticipation of which only makes you more anxious around people
Thank you for these wonderful stories! I was initially thinking that this would be more of a thriller, but it was a very sweet love story instead, and an interesting change of pace, with the West Battery War being tangential to the story.
I would love to read the account of Bartleby's voyage back to civilisation.
Thanks, Donmac! Glad you enjoyed it 😃The story you're looking for was the prequel to this one: ruclips.net/video/oBB4dE9dmxI/видео.html It wasn't quite as uplifting as this one, so I felt compelled to see that Bartleby had a happy ending.
I'm commenting on every story in this playlist in the hope that someone will come up with a map and glossary 😊😊
Gah... Loved this one! I'm so happy it turned out the way it did. Sara did a great job it seems!
Thanks, Athena, glad to hear it! Sara did good! She may be making another appearance again sometime soon, btw 🤔
@@RoweLit I'm so happy to read that!! I was wondering what happened to her after this episodes ending!
Excellent
Thanks, D!
Fantastic
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Okay I’ll be honest, after the first story I spent this entire episode thinking it would turn out that Bartelby had in fact become holo-addicted, that this was the fantasy he had finally lost himself in (never regaining contact with the AI) and that Sara would be on the outside desperately trying to revive him because they still weren’t done with the 9 year trip.
This was great though, I love romance and this type of ending! Good story!
Ha! Thanks, GF! That never occurred to me with all the struggles he'd been through. A pretty good plot, though 🤔
great pic
Appreciate it. That one took forever.
Lovely
Cheers, Joachim 🙏
Nice!
Thanks, Keith!
Thank you. Have you ever seen the English patient movie? This one (your story)I liked better.
Now that you mention it, Mario, I vaguely remember it from years and years ago. Glad you enjoyed this one 😃
Great story! I especially appreciate no profanity. Just great scifi.
Thanks, ABE. Glad you enjoyed it. Great stories can certainly have profanity, and some stories wouldn't ring true without it, like if all the mobsters in Goodfellas talked like altar boys. But it's definitely not a necessary element for many if not most stories.
@@RoweLit I guess the thing that gets me is I read many scifi stories set hundreds or thousands of years in the future in another galaxy 3 hundred light years away from earth and they are still using the same curse words...I guess that's why they call it "fiction". Some I have read use substitute words that you know from context are swear words but have no connection with what is used today. But to use current words eons in the future, light years away just doesn't ring possible and seem gratuitous to me, put in for impact but not for realism.
Been reading scifi for over 60 years and find your stories refreshing. I listen while I work at my cabinet shop.
@@AffordBindEquipment That's super interesting, ABE, because presumably, the stories are in English (or another contemporary language if you're bilingual) and that doesn't trip your BS alarm but swears do. What's interesting about it, if I recall correctly is that swears "live" in a different part of the brain from language--to the extent that there are cases of people who have suffered strokes in the area of the brain that produces speech (Wernicke's area) and these people can no longer speak but can still swear, because swears are "produced" in the basal ganglia. Sorry, the narratology nerd in me finds that totally fascinating, because as you note, there are a host of frakkin rutting gorram fake curse words in sci-fi, and almost all of them seem silly.
So glad you're enjoying! The fact that you're building things as you listen warms me heart!
genius!
Cheers, Raider!
nice!
Cheers, FF!
Oh my gawd, just kiss each other already!
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Now i know why The Numbers Between 9 & 8 bemused me feeling incomplete. Loved the story ?:-)
Thanks, Barry! I do like a feel-good story 🙏😃 Then again, I like all kinds of stories 😂
What happened to the ai??
She stayed with Bartleby. Those two were way too close to part.
@@RoweLit i need to know more. dont leave us hanging. thats like having the power go out half way thru a great movie.
@@eriknulty6392 and they all lived happily ever after 😄 If you haven't caught it, the backstory for why the AI is so important in this story is told in "The Numbers Between 9 & 8," which I think, despite my bias, is also a very good story. But, yes, where Bartleby goes Sarawathi goes too for the rest of his days.
@@RoweLit love your writing. Feel almost all of them could easily be turned into movies. Really enjoyed the one where the guy crash lands because of his cheating wife and his AI robot friend builds him a shelter/home that he inevitably have to die in.
But one of your latest books…with the salty scientist, and Juice and company is AMAZING. Where they are relic hunting to solve the universe’s mysteries. LOVE the ending when you said. ‘she is probably going to tell her dad how we broke the universe as we speak.’ LOL. That book really did it for me. Thank you so much, I tell my wife about how talented you are all the time. Keep up the great work.
@@eriknulty6392 Thanks, erik. That's so cool to hear! I really appreciate your kind words. It makes all the hard work worth it. It really is a pleasure and a privilege to be able to share my stories with others!
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Mark CEN CA see I decided to go here instead of the other story 😂😂
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