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When Hale Burch lost both his legs and an arm at the height of the West Battery War, he doubted if he’d even make it to rehab, much less back to the Service of the Lettered Systems he’d sworn to defend. But this new chapter in his life was destined to be far different from anything he’d bargained for. Alongside the galaxy’s most unlikely gang of compatriots, Burch was about to partake in missions he couldn’t possibly have fathomed.

Listeners will encounter ingenious, world-shaping engineers; mind-bending meetings with God-like aliens; unfathomably massive space megastructures; ancient, super-intelligent hive minds; and a host of adventurous humans, struggling to negotiate the amazing storyscapes in this first collection of sci-fi stories from author P.E. Rowe.

As much a history as it is a book of sci-fi tales, the third volume of sci-fi shorts by P. E. Rowe brings us deeper into the Post-Columnar Epoch. Each of these 15 stand-alone stories fits within a rich tapestry depicting a sector of the Milky Way that came to be known as the Battery Systems. For returning readers, places like Athos, Iophos, and Hellenia may be familiar, while new places like the Columns, Charris, and Exos have merely been hinted at before. Here, they are explored in depth through stories that reveal the peoples in them.

The galaxy is filled with marvelous creations: both the creatures who inhabit it, and the civilizations they construct. Listeners will encounter human societies at the far reaches of the Milky Way, alien genetic engineers at the dawn of humanity, cloud-dwellers floating on rings in the skies of distant planets, industrious alien traders, and a host of adventurous humans striving to traverse these amazing storyscapes in the second volume of sci-fi stories from author P.E. Rowe.

When Hale Burch returns from two hundred million years in the future, he and his companions have a clear mission: stop the dystopian future where humans become the docile pets of the technological races from coming into being. If they don’t succeed, all the progress humanity has made in advancing as an interstellar species will cease to matter. Now back in Burch’s time, they have a chance to defeat the technologicals who control the future before they ever have a chance to enslave humanity.

Leaping in space and time between near-future Earth and the distant reaches of our galaxy far in the future, this fourth installment of Sci-Fi shorts by P.E. Rowe covers rich territory. Each of these sixteen stand-alone stories explores deep ideas and unique characters. From new concepts in technology and their societal implications, to the personal journeys of people crossing forbidden cultural boundaries, meeting grave galactic challenges, and battling monsters within. This expansive collection introduces listeners to the reclusive shipbuilders of the Eden Cylinder Group.