Hello and welcome to my All Tomorrows audiobook reading! Just a quick disclaimer: 1. I now know that "Oedipus" is pronounced "Ed-i-pus" and not "Oh-ed-i-pus". 2. I do make a couple of small mistakes in my reading, mispronouncing the odd word, like "schism" and a couple of others. 3. Occassionally the audio in some sections may go a little bit quieter than others, I have tried to normalize it all to the same level, hopefully you don't find it too distracting. Thank you for watching! Don't forget to like, comment, share and subscribe!
Nope. What's terrifying is that they were twisted abomination longer than they were human. In essence, their existence is more closer to the abomination then that of humans. To me that's terrifying.
if your partner doesnt want to listen to the horrifying fictional future of humanity forcibly being evolved into malformed creatures for 2 hours, are they really the one?
Indeed. Our problem is the finite time we have but our minds are able to reach much further. People always say that immortality would be a curse but I see it differently. To observe the evolution over millions of years would never get boring.
I was thrown for an absolute loop when the Qu showed up and did their thing. Everything up to that point was kind of what you expect from a sci-fi story about early space colonization. And then it just goes all “Humans lost. Humans lost HARD.” It’s one thing for a people to be enslaved by alien invaders for generations, even for hundreds or thousands of years. But just this scope of time, where the species was tortured and genetically mutilated for a vastly longer amount of time than Homo sapiens itself had even existed as a species, put the power disparity into clear focus. By the time the Qu just casually decided to leave, “mankind” had existed as mutant descendent species longer than they had ever truly existed as “mankind” as we know it.
The most chilling part of All Tomorrows is the body horror of cosmic biology - it makes perfect logical sense that beings on worlds with different gravity, suns, atmospheric compositions and resources would evolve drastically differently to each other over millions of years, and yet the fact that all of them have at least a perceptible resemblance to Humanity in them is so jarring that you oftentimes forget the beings in All Tomorrows aren't aliens from other galaxies: they're our *direct descendants.*
Yeah I know right! When I first sore all tommrows I thought they were all aliens, imagine a snake person finding out it was descended from some weird 2 legs, 2 arms, 5 digit, intelligent ape creature from a distant alien world
Arguably they're both. While all of these peoples are biological descendants of homo sapiens, for dozens of millions of years they were born in their respective planets through generations. They grew up on those worlds, and came to know them. They are foreign to us, and us unknown to most of them. With exceptions of the colonizers, they were native to those worlds now.
I think I will always respect the colonials the most. They held off two waves of QU which is extremely impressive. I wish the book added more detail into what happened during those battles.
One thing I love about AT is how although it's full of body horror and humans being twisted into strange forms, they never lose their humanity. It's a grimdark setting, yet one where good is ever present.
It goes heavy into the theme of living in the present, and the perspective as a living being. These events take place over the course of millions of centuries, and within them is an entire life that is lived. Could also imagine if we ourselves have a past similar to this, but simply unaware of it and continue our days as usual
I feel fortunate that, after trying to explain All Tomorrows to a friend last night, I realized I could just throw this video at them since they love audio books. Thank you for your service, ser.
It's a shame that you can't get people interested in artistic works just by explaining it to them. You can tell someone about a book, but they won't truly enjoy it until reading it themselves.
I've tried two audiobooks for this and I didn't like any of the voices and pacing, you are easily the best one so far! Amazing voice can't wait for more
Alt shift ZZZ has a good one too. And lots of other similar readings. Not trying to take away from this reader though he is great as well. I’m listening again just cause it feels so different.
The final line of "what you do today influences tommorow, not the other way around so love today and seize all tommorows" hit me hard for some reason, this is the kind of book that I can't explain but I know will stick with me for a lifetime and your voice has forever been cemented as the narrator of this book in my mind, absolutely incredible work
@@ryan.1990 man after man I'll check it out ,it's got to be better then this, really All Tomorrow not that good,was it written by a 5th grader with average grades.
What I love about this story is how it's possible to fill in the gaps with your own head canon. I've seen several AUs that I really enjoy as much as the original story and I love your reading of it.
I'm so glad you did this. THANK YOU! There are some others that did readings on this, and I'm so glad that they did that for us, but so far yours is the best I've found in terms of how natural of a reader you are. If you're not already doing so you should definitely look into getting audiobook narration gigs or just read more stuff for us 😄
Thank you Alteori!! I am so glad you enjoyed my reading, and thank you so much for sharing the video! It means a lot, especially coming from a big name TH-camr such as yourself😁 Thank you, once again, for your kind words😊
@@BrunoHenrique-wz9tr That would be fantastic and I would love to read it, however, unlike All Tomorrows, Man After Man is copyrighted and so I wouldn't want to risk getting a strike, so sadly I wont be able to do that one I'm afraid😔
As someone who doesn't often venture outside of the more tame and lighthearted fiction, I almost found myself putting it down after being so disturbed I nearly lost my lunch. I'm glad I stuck it through though. It is a hard and grim story, but by latter half I was very compelled and found the closing sentiment inspiring in a way.
I fall asleep to this every night because it’s so nonemotional and relaxing. You manage to make a book that could be potentially frightening into something scientific and entrancing. Thank you so much! I’m really hoping to hear more audiobooks from you.
I know this comment is almost a year old, but I also fall asleep to things like this. If you want more good cosmic horror to sleep to the channel The Exploring Series does great readings of some of Lovecraft's work.
I would like to believe that the ending of All Tomorrows is the beginning of the history we know as ours. We went far out just to come back home to try it all again
What a perfect narration to such a grim and amazing story, it always leaves me thinking when I hear about this book. You earned yourself a sub. Thanks!
Next time I have to do a college project on a novel, I know exactly what book I'm heading for. Really appreciate this, BtQu. Keep making videos, and we'll keep watching them.
listening to this as a fledgling paleontologist who's learning about evolution in it's already taken forms is a different kind of experience. lovely work!
This book really needs personalized stories like Man after Man. In entirety, the narrative was dark and depressive but that's because we, as an audience is viewing it with millions of years in passing. I wonder how a day in _one human subtype_ goes, like the hedonists/hippies or what the leftover star people do in their freetime within the asteroids
Having a story span literally millions of years is mind boggling. As if the author was that researcher that peeled back millions of years and placed it into a giant textbook. Thought the story was going to end with the heat death of the Universe, but leaving it open ended is even better. Thank you for narrating it!
Feels kind of somber to hear a story where we don't exist anymore even after all the struggles humanity had to endure for survival - to simply exist and love peacefully. But it is kind of heartwarming to know that even if the history of humanity was about the ideals, the dreams we have for ourselves - there was always one thing that will be most important - living. It's the essence of why we have all these ideals and all these dreams that we want to make true. The story might be disturbing but it's more hopeful than it seems. Great reading! Really interested in learning more ~
The fact that an extremely powerful, distant future humanity existing as an interstellar civilization was just wiped out in a paragraph by comparatively much older and more powerful alien species is chilling and fascinating at the same time.
I would rather listen to this, and other books like it, than watch ANY Marvel movie. Mankind could benefit from stories like this. Thank you for providing such a listenable audio version. My old eyes and ears thank you.
Out of everything I have heard and taken in from the just-shy-of-two-hours audiobook, what I love most is how the Qu are brought up later in the story. Specifically how it's described in so few words as "Then subdued the Qu." "So yeah anyway the New Mankind found the Qu again and fucking bitchslapped them back into their place."
The 'patchwork quilt' of Humanity is especially disturbing, but then again, they all are! This appeared on You tube a few years back in some other upload. It was nice to get a hearing of the book in Audio format. Thank you to the Author of the book and to you for reading it and sharing it on You tube once again.
This is one of my favourite books. I love fictional lorebooks. I've seen enough linear stories, give me a universe full of lore, people and their history. I want to learn about fictional culture, its changes through time and politics or problems. I will literally binge whole books like this
@@Christontoast I've read a few 10 Star Wars books, Tolkien's whole extended lore, All Yesterdays, some Warhammer books, the whole of Halo and more. That's off the top of my head. Oh and more speculative biology books.
I've heard bits of this book before, and seen some of the illustrations. But until today, I had never read or listened to a reading of it. I cannot express how much I _love_ this. I'm a huge fan of Wayne Barlowe's Extraterrestrial art, namely the _Expedition_ series. This reminds me so much of that, but with a very human spin on everything. Thinking about what life in the Galaxy will look like in a billion years is something I don't think we could ever accurately grasp and conceptualize, but these guys, Wayne and the Author of this story, C.M. Kosemen, I think they're about the closest we'll get to accurate depictions of life in places and periods of time so far out of our line of sight that humanity will likely perish before ever seeing it. Amazing reading, amazing story. You get a sub from me.
That was amazing! I've watched just about every other All Tomorrows video on TH-cam, but I hadn't actually read the book. It was even better than I thought it would be! Phenomenal reading, you did a great job keeping my attention the whole time, and that's not easy to do!
one thing that always surprised me with this book was the fact none of the collective societies no matter how advanced (not even the Asteromorphs whose brains grew to enormous sizes) were able to reach higher states of consciousness, just as they did with general sentience. it's all about perception and their ability to perceive more than in three dimensions, which the Asteromorphs should have been able to do with their mental state. perhaps that's what the author alluded to in the end with their sudden disappearance. just something I always thought about.
It would have been nice if the species that didn't survive could have coexisted with the other post humans. The mantilopes with the hedonists (to help the hedonists learn songs of old) and the titans with the predators and prey (to help the predators gain some humility) and the Temptors..... well honestly I wouldn't even want to coexist with them but they didn't deserve destruction.
Every time when I can’t sleep. I just listen to this! Your voice is pretty calming and this audiobook is really repeatable without it getting boring. Very cool 🙂👍!
The illustrations in conjunction with the story brings a real element of morbid fascination. To see the human form twisted into all these different shapes and sizes, to see our natural form as we know it changed irrevocably and ultimately erased entirely, there's a degree of horror in that.
This book is interesting but I think that once you get to the latter half where the post humans have consciousness the huge time jumps are a bit unbelievable. Like think about all that happened in earth in just the last 10,000 years and it seems strange that a society that has internal conflicts like the machines could live in a relatively static existence for 50 million years.
As already mentioned I think it was both what the Qu did to humanity and the vast distances(remember in this universe FTL is pretty much confirmed to be impossible, not even the billion year old Q figured it out) means any massive shifts would take insanely long amounts of time.
Technically they are human just as birds are dinosaurs even if the humans where changed to the point where a tree looks like your clone compared to another species
Arguably, they are more human than modern humans. While modern humans are but a species of primate, these post-humans almost make humanity a biological clade in and of themselves. An entire class of mammals composed of variations of man.
Thank you so much! It's always nice when people respond positively to my readings. I am looking for other books to read, the only thing is they need to be copyright-free (like All Tomorrows) so that there's no risk of getting a strike. I plan to do more readings on this channel when I find more suitable works.
Back again about a year after I shared this with my long term partner, this book is amazing! We constantly talk about theoretical evolution; mostly because we are both autistic and I personally have other medical issues. Ehlers-Danlos causes a condition called Velvatine skin, super soft, easily brused, stretchy and transparently thin skin. You can map all the veins and tiny blood vessels on my arms. Theres so much to say about the idea that these conditions have co-evolved with us. My condition also causes hyper mobile joints "extemly double jointed" in other words. Many gymnast, acrobats, ballerinas and other athletes have symptoms of my condition usually on a much smaller scale. Its most often seen in women not always. But when you think about how woman have literally been pulled every direction and literally "overextended" for *HUNDREDS* of years. [No, not hyperbolic, you know what I mean by literally.] Truly a great book to discuss and listen to during any task or as a mental hyperfocus deep dive on theoretical evolution! Ofc I will be listening to After Man and Man After Man right after Im done here💛
Amazing read, i was entranced. The ending gave me chills, it goes back full circle from the epicness of this entire journey of death, life, wars, evolution to the simplicity of the moment to moment everyday life.
This is crazy, it is a fantastic thought experiment that also makes the listener/reader think about a lot of stuff that isn't described or is peripheral to the story.
I’ve never heard of this book. I don’t know why this video was suggested to me or why I clicked on it. But I thoroughly enjoyed this reading. Well done
I saw this in my recommended. This is fantastic. I didn't know I needed this kind of science fiction until now. I've always loved it. I Inherited it from my dad and grandfather. I've had tastes of really good fiction but mostly I'm stuck with young adult fiction. And then this shows up. Perfection.
This is the first audiobook I've heard, and it's been a sublime first experience. Thank you so much for doing this! I enjoyed it from start to end. My friends will love it, I'll recommend it to everyone.
A colleague told me about this book when we were discussing "I have no mouth". At first I was disappointed by the fact it was never put in print, and the russian translation I found online was... uhm, let's be polite, it was not good. But then I suddenly remembered that youtube exists (duh) and found this video. Thank you for your narration, I'm not a huge fan of audiobooks but your reading was great and very suitable for this kind of story 💚
I think in a way the Asteromorph - Gravital war resemble the Napoleonic wars; the Gravitals were continental europe whilst the Asteros were the brits, their mastery off the sea (in this case the void) made them the ultimate winners against a seemingly unstopable force.
Such an awesome book, the most unique take on science fiction and the future of humanity. If anyone knows of a sprawling sci-fi text similar to this please comment below! Thank you for the reading, great quality audio and phrasing, keep up the good work!
The qu left pyramids and animals bugs ect. And the story expands from a billion to several billions of years and its been 14 billion years what if. Is a cycle but each time we come back little bit more of knowlage and understanding and do it all over again until we get it right and become God like and then move to a diff dimension to Start process over and over again till infinity
@@seriousceez wait what? Just because we can't explain it, means an alien imperialist came millions of years ago to experiment on our ancestors? And what can't we explain?
Something i realized, this discover of the therizinosaurus like animal by the star people was likely another race like humanity that the Qu bastardized, shit, maybe all the dinosaurs that used to live on earth were somehow one species.
@@BewareCast i now realize an irony, mammals (humans) overtook the reptile / avian dinosaurs, and during the lizard hearders story its hinted that the lizards surpassed the humans, and they have all the researches to start a new civilization eventually, i haven't finished the audio yet but i came into as a kid once and thought the art looked weird but intriguing, but this is actually an interesting story. The narration is pretty quality
@@thesleepytyrannosaurusrex297 Well is that was the case, consider all the types of dinosaurs there are compared to the therizinosaurus like a triceratops or smaller raptor or long neck seems like a basterdization to me, not to mention the other animals on the alien planet the therizinosaurus came from, which there does seem to be a small pattern considering some of the human subspecies looked similar to dinosaurs, also its funny the lizard hearders seemed to farm a type of lizard that looked like something that came out of earth. but that's just my fun theory, i just finished the audio and i'm kinda bummed the lizard species got (spoiler) they seemed to go wiped out by the gravitals
Thanks so much for making this dude, I always wanted to read All Tomorrows but I get distracted stupidly fast so a well preformed audio reading like this is a life saver
I was glad to read in the description that this reading and video has been approved by the author. Excellent performance of an amazing book. Thanks to the reader and the author/artist.
Perfection my friend. Your voice keeps me drawn in but it's also calming and not to distracting to allow me to also work while listening. Thank God because I love auidobooks and can never find a person with a comforting or less aggressive voice
Amazing. Usually I play audio books before I go to sleep and often do not bother to continue in the morning but this one held my interest from start to end. Really good.
Great reader and voice with the right pace. Thanks for doing this. On side note, I didn't expect such an great ending to the book. While TH-cam is filled with a lot of nice skitz etc the end of this book is actually quite meaningful
WOW! This needs a series on some channel, with its integrity kept. I mean man oh man what a story. Thank you for the reading. Waiting for another entry by C.M Koseman.
This is one of my favourite works of literature. Its so easy to find comfort in the imagination that we are only just maturing as a species and that our journey could be long and twisted. The final message always sends chills down my spine, how the true message is not about the millions of years of evolution, but rather the individuals journey.
I loved this story SO MUCH cuz it’s helped me through hard times,now I’m making comic about it and I’m so glad that i did because it’s break my anxiety and gave me the courage to go forward and tell more stories ,thank you for reading this masterpiece beautifully.
You have the perfect voice for this! Found this channel and had to listen to the book again bc it being read to by such a calm voice wouldve made it even better! And it did! And now that i have found this channel i gotta say you make a lot of fun theories and explanations of the post humans! Subbed!
I really enjoyed your reading of this, the few insignificant minor criticisms I had, you addressed in the top comment. I do home health care which means I drive a lot, instead of listening to sad news today I had the absolute treat of listening to this. So profound, so dark, so heartbreaking, so beautiful. What a unique concept.
a) I am still confused why your reading has that less views than "Alt Shift X"´s, I love his channel, but your version is clearly a little bit better and most importantly it is the whole story. b) as I listened to your reading the 10th time right now, I realised that the humans where already the descendants of a species, changed by the QU. ( same time as they made new species from the dinosaurs ) I don´t think the Qu only stole some species to mix them together to only one new speices on one random planet.
That was one of the most impactful audiobooks I've ever experienced. Holy fucking shit I wanna buy both a paper copy and and a display hardcover copy so that I can put it my book shelf
24 hours ago I didn't even know this existed. Now, I'm completely immersed and obsessed. Watched several of your vids already and I'm listening to a podcast with C.M. right now on The Alt Shift X. Next on the agenda is ordering some merch.
Its mind boggling how this story pans to a timeline we cant even comprehend, and our own stage of evolution stops in the first few minutes of the story. We havent even set foot on mars and here we are talking about countless fall and dawns of civilization spread throughout light years of the universe growing at a scale we havent even realised yet.
Crazy thing about this ..there can be really similar things happened in the past like this.. And we can never know that.. Human alone are mysterious there are some theories about how we begins.. But i know for sure we are not alone in the universe.
Absolutely. I spend a good deal of my time researching the Annunaki, the Dead Sea Scrolls and various other possible stories to our true origins. I really do believe our true history is hidden from us.
@@BewareCast I think humanity is pretty well-traced at this point. Life itself however is another matter. And one thing's for sure, there was no advanced civilization settled on a large scale on earth before us, or we would have found traces of it by now, be it ruins or something else.
@@thorveim1174 I don't think we can actually be sure of that, to assume we know everything about human history would be arrogance of the highest order. Plus, they may have found artifacts from humanity's advanced past and simply hidden them... but I don't know for certain and never claim to.
@@BewareCast knowing everything nah. But we do know quite a bit, and whats missing... Is more likely to end up being mundane than something completely out there :p
Great job narrating this! You really captured the dry academic tone this book was going for. And the subtle electrical drone in the background was a nice touch, it added a lot to the mood of the story. Do you have any more books like this you’re thinking of narrating?
Thank you for the compliments! I'm actually looking into doing some more narrations of speculative evolution books, I plan on making a start on one very soon, in fact.
@@BewareCast I've listened to more than enough audiobooks to feel justified in my level of pickiness when it comes to narrators. Until your read here, can't say I've ever found a privately produced audiobook that didn't make me cringe, let alone one that I outright enjoyed. Really well done! I appreciate it all the more because there is no version of this story out there on audible or the like (and I basically only do audiobooks). Not sure if it's on your radar, but there's a short story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," that I think you could do really well! Regardless, thank you for this!
@@KDCindustries Thank you for the compliments! I'm glad you enjoyed it :) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is definitely on my radar and something I will be looking into doing fairly soon. In the meantime, if you're interested, I have two more audiobooks on my channel: Man After Man (5 hrs. long) and Dinosaurs (1 hr. long) which are in a similar vein to All Tomorrows. Thanks again for watching! :)
Hello and welcome to my All Tomorrows audiobook reading! Just a quick disclaimer:
1. I now know that "Oedipus" is pronounced "Ed-i-pus" and not "Oh-ed-i-pus".
2. I do make a couple of small mistakes in my reading, mispronouncing the odd word, like "schism" and a couple of others.
3. Occassionally the audio in some sections may go a little bit quieter than others, I have tried to normalize it all to the same level, hopefully you don't find it too distracting.
Thank you for watching! Don't forget to like, comment, share and subscribe!
Where did you get the book?
@@shahidkarim9910 the link is in the description👍
I think the download link is down. Is that on purpose, is it coming back up or is my phone acting up? Lol
@@BryanFury85 Sorry about that, should be fixed now.
Your pronunciation of schism is valid iirc. Just not used in the US.
The most terrifying thing of all tomorrows is not how the human kind got twisted by the Qu, is the sheer amount of time in between events.
How can a human skull survive 1 billion years?
@@NA-NCL2 same thing like dinosour bbones fossilization
What of the qu are the humans
Nope.
What's terrifying is that they were twisted abomination longer than they were human.
In essence, their existence is more closer to the abomination then that of humans. To me that's terrifying.
So @@regularvenezuelancitizen5668 your telling me that the qu are not the humans
*Well yes but maybe the humans evolved into the qu with two species*
Best date ever. Just sat around the Bluetooth speaker lost together in billions of years of horrific, amazingly complex evolution.
Wow that's really cool. Best of luck to you both! 😁
@@BewareCast thank you! For everything. It's important work, keeping some works alive and relevant because you know they're worth sharing.
@@reallyrealravenhow's it doing now?
if your partner doesnt want to listen to the horrifying fictional future of humanity forcibly being evolved into malformed creatures for 2 hours, are they really the one?
Did this with “I have not mouth and I must scream” it was so fun! Candles and a pasta dinner and little bit of wine
this was written 15 years ago but it feels like the writer came from the future and released this as a warning to humanity
Indeed. Our problem is the finite time we have but our minds are able to reach much further. People always say that immortality would be a curse but I see it differently. To observe the evolution over millions of years would never get boring.
How
Who says they didnt? A time traveler went back to a time before the book was published and wrote it.
You think space exists? hahahahahhahHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
@@measlesplease1266 th-cam.com/video/VjNQFYwLlRg/w-d-xo.html
I was thrown for an absolute loop when the Qu showed up and did their thing. Everything up to that point was kind of what you expect from a sci-fi story about early space colonization. And then it just goes all “Humans lost. Humans lost HARD.” It’s one thing for a people to be enslaved by alien invaders for generations, even for hundreds or thousands of years. But just this scope of time, where the species was tortured and genetically mutilated for a vastly longer amount of time than Homo sapiens itself had even existed as a species, put the power disparity into clear focus. By the time the Qu just casually decided to leave, “mankind” had existed as mutant descendent species longer than they had ever truly existed as “mankind” as we know it.
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@@feelingfriskyx560 what
@@lucaswallo8127 mitragyna speciosa
Exactly what I was thinking.
The most chilling part of All Tomorrows is the body horror of cosmic biology - it makes perfect logical sense that beings on worlds with different gravity, suns, atmospheric compositions and resources would evolve drastically differently to each other over millions of years, and yet the fact that all of them have at least a perceptible resemblance to Humanity in them is so jarring that you oftentimes forget the beings in All Tomorrows aren't aliens from other galaxies: they're our *direct descendants.*
Yeah I know right! When I first sore all tommrows I thought they were all aliens, imagine a snake person finding out it was descended from some weird 2 legs, 2 arms, 5 digit, intelligent ape creature from a distant alien world
Arguably they're both. While all of these peoples are biological descendants of homo sapiens, for dozens of millions of years they were born in their respective planets through generations. They grew up on those worlds, and came to know them. They are foreign to us, and us unknown to most of them. With exceptions of the colonizers, they were native to those worlds now.
I think I will always respect the colonials the most. They held off two waves of QU which is extremely impressive. I wish the book added more detail into what happened during those battles.
Worst, they got turned into sentient cancer cells
@@JohrnyReport And still manage to come back and rebuild civilization. Those people have balls of steel.
@@poohtisdispenser7106 and they died because of the gravitials damn imagine processing poop for 40 million years then gaining freedom then dieing
I think adding detail would miss the point
@@sbddoessomething275 they lived sentient lives for over 80 Million years, at least
One thing I love about AT is how although it's full of body horror and humans being twisted into strange forms, they never lose their humanity. It's a grimdark setting, yet one where good is ever present.
It goes heavy into the theme of living in the present, and the perspective as a living being. These events take place over the course of millions of centuries, and within them is an entire life that is lived.
Could also imagine if we ourselves have a past similar to this, but simply unaware of it and continue our days as usual
th-cam.com/video/VjNQFYwLlRg/w-d-xo.html
Who said humanity is good?
You sure you read it? Like, gravitals?
Lord Inquisitor, this video here
I feel fortunate that, after trying to explain All Tomorrows to a friend last night, I realized I could just throw this video at them since they love audio books. Thank you for your service, ser.
You are most welcome, glad to be of service!
@acooknamed_Rishi Me? No.
Beware the Qu the books the tv show was amazing until season 4 when the writers fell off the source material
@@thelimon4338 there was a tv show??
It's a shame that you can't get people interested in artistic works just by explaining it to them. You can tell someone about a book, but they won't truly enjoy it until reading it themselves.
Speculative biology always interested me, they give a slight sense of dread and curiosity. I only wish their were more books like this.
Consider reading man after man it's quite similar but just different enough to not seem repetitive
The emotion I feel while listening: primal repulsion. My stomach churns and my limbs ache just by looking at it.
Less hardcore, but interestingly similar are Children of Time.
Im now scared, this is literally my worst nightmare
Man After Man is similar but more pessimistic.
I've tried two audiobooks for this and I didn't like any of the voices and pacing, you are easily the best one so far! Amazing voice can't wait for more
Thank you so much for your kind words! More coming soon :)
Alt shift ZZZ has a good one too. And lots of other similar readings. Not trying to take away from this reader though he is great as well. I’m listening again just cause it feels so different.
@@BewareCast the voice is pretty much perfect, very relaxing and does not distract from the story for even a moment. great job
@@BewareCast I concur with OP.
@@BewareCast Yes screw you and your awesome British voice.. We have you guys narrate everything for us Yankees lol
I have no doubt that the author had fun writing this book and that you had fun narrating it. I appreciate both of you for your effort.
I did, and thank you!
Perfect narration, and the way you said
"Love today and seize all tomorrow's"
Sent chills daown my back
The final line of "what you do today influences tommorow, not the other way around so love today and seize all tommorows" hit me hard for some reason, this is the kind of book that I can't explain but I know will stick with me for a lifetime and your voice has forever been cemented as the narrator of this book in my mind, absolutely incredible work
Whoa. What the heck did I just listen to? I came into this one blind and didn't know what to expect. This was pretty amazing.
Same I just stumbled on to it and now I want more.
@@krudeddie 0
same
@@MrThecrazyzombie Try _Man After Man,_ that's how I found All Tomorrows
@@ryan.1990 man after man I'll check it out ,it's got to be better then this, really All Tomorrow not that good,was it written by a 5th grader with average grades.
This is THE audiobook for All Tomorrows. Your voice is perfect for this scientifically historic recollection.
I vaguely understood the story of all tomorrows, but listening to this blew my mind. I had chills at the end
What I love about this story is how it's possible to fill in the gaps with your own head canon. I've seen several AUs that I really enjoy as much as the original story and I love your reading of it.
Thank you.
I'm so glad you did this. THANK YOU! There are some others that did readings on this, and I'm so glad that they did that for us, but so far yours is the best I've found in terms of how natural of a reader you are.
If you're not already doing so you should definitely look into getting audiobook narration gigs or just read more stuff for us 😄
Thank you Alteori!! I am so glad you enjoyed my reading, and thank you so much for sharing the video! It means a lot, especially coming from a big name TH-camr such as yourself😁 Thank you, once again, for your kind words😊
@@BewareCast have you ever thought about doing "Man After man" ? it would be a dream come true!!
@@BrunoHenrique-wz9tr That would be fantastic and I would love to read it, however, unlike All Tomorrows, Man After Man is copyrighted and so I wouldn't want to risk getting a strike, so sadly I wont be able to do that one I'm afraid😔
@@BewareCast ❤️❤️❤️
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As someone who doesn't often venture outside of the more tame and lighthearted fiction, I almost found myself putting it down after being so disturbed I nearly lost my lunch. I'm glad I stuck it through though. It is a hard and grim story, but by latter half I was very compelled and found the closing sentiment inspiring in a way.
I'm glad you enjoyed it
what a weakling lol
I love this book, but it’s a real shame that it’s never been made in print. I’d pay $60 just to own a physical copy of this
CM Kosemen's working on a new All Tomorrows book that will be available in print
Well well well
Well well well
@@VoxiconVoxicolais there a physical publishing now? I cant find anything saying so
@@chamber8234 yes, it's on kickstarter I think
I fall asleep to this every night because it’s so nonemotional and relaxing. You manage to make a book that could be potentially frightening into something scientific and entrancing. Thank you so much! I’m really hoping to hear more audiobooks from you.
falling asleep to cosmic horror is a flex
RELAXING!?!
I guess I’m not the only one! I listen to this every night on principle!
I know this comment is almost a year old, but I also fall asleep to things like this. If you want more good cosmic horror to sleep to the channel The Exploring Series does great readings of some of Lovecraft's work.
@@TSGPhilippthe qu are pretty chill man, they're just misunderstood artists
I really liked the ending👍👍👍
"What you do today influences tomorrow, not the other way around"🗣️🗣️🗣️
I would like to believe that the ending of All Tomorrows is the beginning of the history we know as ours. We went far out just to come back home to try it all again
I honestly kept expecting the Spacers - Astromorph - Qu evolutionary line
What a perfect narration to such a grim and amazing story, it always leaves me thinking when I hear about this book. You earned yourself a sub. Thanks!
Such a nice comment, thank you for subscribing!
Next time I have to do a college project on a novel, I know exactly what book I'm heading for. Really appreciate this, BtQu. Keep making videos, and we'll keep watching them.
That's awesome! And thank you, more videos coming soon!
listening to this as a fledgling paleontologist who's learning about evolution in it's already taken forms is a different kind of experience. lovely work!
This book really needs personalized stories like Man after Man. In entirety, the narrative was dark and depressive but that's because we, as an audience is viewing it with millions of years in passing. I wonder how a day in _one human subtype_ goes, like the hedonists/hippies or what the leftover star people do in their freetime within the asteroids
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Having a story span literally millions of years is mind boggling. As if the author was that researcher that peeled back millions of years and placed it into a giant textbook.
Thought the story was going to end with the heat death of the Universe, but leaving it open ended is even better. Thank you for narrating it!
Feels kind of somber to hear a story where we don't exist anymore even after all the struggles humanity had to endure for survival - to simply exist and love peacefully. But it is kind of heartwarming to know that even if the history of humanity was about the ideals, the dreams we have for ourselves - there was always one thing that will be most important - living. It's the essence of why we have all these ideals and all these dreams that we want to make true. The story might be disturbing but it's more hopeful than it seems. Great reading! Really interested in learning more ~
Thank you for your kind wordsI have many more videos on my channel where I dive into the story, if you want to check those out
The fact that an extremely powerful, distant future humanity existing as an interstellar civilization was just wiped out in a paragraph by comparatively much older and more powerful alien species is chilling and fascinating at the same time.
The second I heard your voice at the very beginning, I shouted to myself, "HELL YEAH! Perfect narrator!"
That is so nice to know, thank you!😁
I would rather listen to this, and other books like it, than watch ANY Marvel movie. Mankind could benefit from stories like this. Thank you for providing such a listenable audio version. My old eyes and ears thank you.
Finally a recording that sounds like it wasn't made during the 1800s
Nope, mine sounds like it's from the 1900s lol
Out of everything I have heard and taken in from the just-shy-of-two-hours audiobook, what I love most is how the Qu are brought up later in the story. Specifically how it's described in so few words as "Then subdued the Qu."
"So yeah anyway the New Mankind found the Qu again and fucking bitchslapped them back into their place."
The 'patchwork quilt' of Humanity is especially disturbing, but then again, they all are! This appeared on You tube a few years back in some other upload. It was nice to get a hearing of the book in Audio format. Thank you to the Author of the book and to you for reading it and sharing it on You tube once again.
This is one of my favourite books. I love fictional lorebooks. I've seen enough linear stories, give me a universe full of lore, people and their history. I want to learn about fictional culture, its changes through time and politics or problems. I will literally binge whole books like this
What are some of your favorite lore books?
@@Christontoast I've read a few 10 Star Wars books, Tolkien's whole extended lore, All Yesterdays, some Warhammer books, the whole of Halo and more. That's off the top of my head.
Oh and more speculative biology books.
@Christontoast the mystery flesh pit is great to
The qu: we do a little trolling around here 😂😂
Con "trolling"
I've heard bits of this book before, and seen some of the illustrations. But until today, I had never read or listened to a reading of it. I cannot express how much I _love_ this.
I'm a huge fan of Wayne Barlowe's Extraterrestrial art, namely the _Expedition_ series. This reminds me so much of that, but with a very human spin on everything. Thinking about what life in the Galaxy will look like in a billion years is something I don't think we could ever accurately grasp and conceptualize, but these guys, Wayne and the Author of this story, C.M. Kosemen, I think they're about the closest we'll get to accurate depictions of life in places and periods of time so far out of our line of sight that humanity will likely perish before ever seeing it.
Amazing reading, amazing story. You get a sub from me.
That was amazing! I've watched just about every other All Tomorrows video on TH-cam, but I hadn't actually read the book. It was even better than I thought it would be! Phenomenal reading, you did a great job keeping my attention the whole time, and that's not easy to do!
That's awesome, I'm so glad you enjoyed the book and my reading of it! Thank you for the compliments :)
one thing that always surprised me with this book was the fact none of the collective societies no matter how advanced (not even the Asteromorphs whose brains grew to enormous sizes) were able to reach higher states of consciousness, just as they did with general sentience. it's all about perception and their ability to perceive more than in three dimensions, which the Asteromorphs should have been able to do with their mental state. perhaps that's what the author alluded to in the end with their sudden disappearance. just something I always thought about.
Why do you assume there are higher states of consciousness?
@@mileshill7196 why assume otherwise?
@@SeanGilligan2JV because there’s no evidence of it.
@@mileshill7196 Why so cynical/argumentative? Why can't a fiction be in a fictional story? Let people have their fun
@@GigaliaTheGreat because I don’t think speculative fiction should embrace the supernatural.
Thank you for doing a proper audio book, great voice really enjoyed it
You're more than welcome.
It would have been nice if the species that didn't survive could have coexisted with the other post humans. The mantilopes with the hedonists (to help the hedonists learn songs of old) and the titans with the predators and prey (to help the predators gain some humility) and the Temptors..... well honestly I wouldn't even want to coexist with them but they didn't deserve destruction.
Bone crushers or strider? Maybe lopsider?
honestly the ending gave me chills on why it's called all tomorrows. reading dude honestly
That ending monologue always makes me tear up no matter how many times I listen to this
Every time when I can’t sleep. I just listen to this! Your voice is pretty calming and this audiobook is really repeatable without it getting boring. Very cool 🙂👍!
The scope of this novel is just mind-blowing.
I love how matter of fact he is. So many shows and movies must have used this as a base for the plot.
It was a gripping sci-fi journey packaged suddenly into a simple and open-ended ending: "love today. Seize all tomorrows"
i'm blown
The illustrations in conjunction with the story brings a real element of morbid fascination. To see the human form twisted into all these different shapes and sizes, to see our natural form as we know it changed irrevocably and ultimately erased entirely, there's a degree of horror in that.
This book is interesting but I think that once you get to the latter half where the post humans have consciousness the huge time jumps are a bit unbelievable. Like think about all that happened in earth in just the last 10,000 years and it seems strange that a society that has internal conflicts like the machines could live in a relatively static existence for 50 million years.
i mean, everything is _very_ far apart, galactic distances lend themselves to galactic timescales, but i do see where you're coming from
I like to think this is because the Qu really did a number on humanity and this is part of the consequences; a slower and paced evolution.
As already mentioned I think it was both what the Qu did to humanity and the vast distances(remember in this universe FTL is pretty much confirmed to be impossible, not even the billion year old Q figured it out) means any massive shifts would take insanely long amounts of time.
@GiggaGMikeE humanity developed travel by means of wormholes, so i think it's safe to assume the Qu didi too
i love this book so, so much. even though though the creatures within it are no longer human, they still retain so much of their humanity.
Technically they are human just as birds are dinosaurs even if the humans where changed to the point where a tree looks like your clone compared to another species
Arguably, they are more human than modern humans. While modern humans are but a species of primate, these post-humans almost make humanity a biological clade in and of themselves. An entire class of mammals composed of variations of man.
I like the voice and the pace of the reader. I wish I could find more books from you.
Thank you so much! It's always nice when people respond positively to my readings. I am looking for other books to read, the only thing is they need to be copyright-free (like All Tomorrows) so that there's no risk of getting a strike. I plan to do more readings on this channel when I find more suitable works.
@@BewareCast Cool. Will subscribe just in case not to miss future books. But no pressure, do whatever you want.
@@BewareCast What about I have no mouth and I must scream? :D
@@rinrinruru1740 I'll look into it.
Back again about a year after I shared this with my long term partner, this book is amazing!
We constantly talk about theoretical evolution; mostly because we are both autistic and I personally have other medical issues. Ehlers-Danlos causes a condition called Velvatine skin, super soft, easily brused, stretchy and transparently thin skin. You can map all the veins and tiny blood vessels on my arms. Theres so much to say about the idea that these conditions have co-evolved with us. My condition also causes hyper mobile joints "extemly double jointed" in other words.
Many gymnast, acrobats, ballerinas and other athletes have symptoms of my condition usually on a much smaller scale. Its most often seen in women not always.
But when you think about how woman have literally been pulled every direction and literally "overextended" for *HUNDREDS* of years.
[No, not hyperbolic, you know what I mean by literally.]
Truly a great book to discuss and listen to during any task or as a mental hyperfocus deep dive on theoretical evolution! Ofc I will be listening to After Man and Man After Man right after Im done here💛
Amazing read, i was entranced. The ending gave me chills, it goes back full circle from the epicness of this entire journey of death, life, wars, evolution to the simplicity of the moment to moment everyday life.
This is crazy, it is a fantastic thought experiment that also makes the listener/reader think about a lot of stuff that isn't described or is peripheral to the story.
This is one of my favorite pieces of literature, absolutely haunting and fascinating
I’ve never heard of this book. I don’t know why this video was suggested to me or why I clicked on it. But I thoroughly enjoyed this reading. Well done
Thank you.
I'm doing a literary analysis paper on this right now, so this is quite helpful.
Glad to be of help👌
Analysis paper?
@@lucaswallo8127 literary* analysis
Even though it is disturbing at times, the thought he put into the evolutionary processes is absolutely fascinating. Such a thinker piece. I love it.
i’ve probably listened to this reading at least 5 times in the past week - your voice does this book so much justice i just can’t get bored of it 😭
Thank you... that really means a lot to me😊
🤡🤓
I saw this in my recommended.
This is fantastic. I didn't know I needed this kind of science fiction until now. I've always loved it. I Inherited it from my dad and grandfather. I've had tastes of really good fiction but mostly I'm stuck with young adult fiction.
And then this shows up.
Perfection.
Glad to be of service.
This is the first audiobook I've heard, and it's been a sublime first experience. Thank you so much for doing this! I enjoyed it from start to end.
My friends will love it, I'll recommend it to everyone.
If this was your first audiobook, I can tell you one thing for sure:
From here on, it can only get worse ^^
A colleague told me about this book when we were discussing "I have no mouth". At first I was disappointed by the fact it was never put in print, and the russian translation I found online was... uhm, let's be polite, it was not good.
But then I suddenly remembered that youtube exists (duh) and found this video. Thank you for your narration, I'm not a huge fan of audiobooks but your reading was great and very suitable for this kind of story 💚
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This book is inspiring and it sporks the imagination to make, and grows to remember this is not the end nor close to any beginning.
I think in a way the Asteromorph - Gravital war resemble the Napoleonic wars; the Gravitals were continental europe whilst the Asteros were the brits, their mastery off the sea (in this case the void) made them the ultimate winners against a seemingly unstopable force.
Time is a flat circle
This wonderful story, coupled with your beautiful voice, is what helps me finally get the sleep I need. Thank you.
Such an awesome book, the most unique take on science fiction and the future of humanity. If anyone knows of a sprawling sci-fi text similar to this please comment below! Thank you for the reading, great quality audio and phrasing, keep up the good work!
Thank you! :)
Reminded me of The Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon. That's a fucking accolade if I ever wrote one!!
Man after man also has "Yeah, those are 'humans', but"
Check out “Humanity Lost”. Actually quite similar but it’s own thing. Awesome art style too.
First time I’ve ever heard of this book very strange and niche but brilliant and fascinating it’s like David Attenborough discovered a time machine
This was told like it already happened and I wouldn’t be surprised if a time traveling alien wrote it and came back to release it
And C.M. Kosemen *is* that time-traveling alien.
lol
Mayb it did already happen and is starting over again i mean look at the things we have here we cant explain
The qu left pyramids and animals bugs ect. And the story expands from a billion to several billions of years and its been 14 billion years what if. Is a cycle but each time we come back little bit more of knowlage and understanding and do it all over again until we get it right and become God like and then move to a diff dimension to Start process over and over again till infinity
@@seriousceez wait what? Just because we can't explain it, means an alien imperialist came millions of years ago to experiment on our ancestors? And what can't we explain?
Something i realized, this discover of the therizinosaurus like animal by the star people was likely another race like humanity that the Qu bastardized, shit, maybe all the dinosaurs that used to live on earth were somehow one species.
Yes! A race of intelligent lizard / bird-like people that the Qu changed into a variety of animals
@@BewareCast i now realize an irony, mammals (humans) overtook the reptile / avian dinosaurs, and during the lizard hearders story its hinted that the lizards surpassed the humans, and they have all the researches to start a new civilization eventually, i haven't finished the audio yet but i came into as a kid once and thought the art looked weird but intriguing, but this is actually an interesting story.
The narration is pretty quality
@@BadVoodo0 Thanks man. And yes, there is an irony there in that we overtook from them, and then they overtook us.
Atleast the dinosaurs weren't bastardised like us!
@@thesleepytyrannosaurusrex297 Well is that was the case, consider all the types of dinosaurs there are compared to the therizinosaurus like a triceratops or smaller raptor or long neck seems like a basterdization to me, not to mention the other animals on the alien planet the therizinosaurus came from, which there does seem to be a small pattern considering some of the human subspecies looked similar to dinosaurs, also its funny the lizard hearders seemed to farm a type of lizard that looked like something that came out of earth.
but that's just my fun theory, i just finished the audio and i'm kinda bummed the lizard species got (spoiler) they seemed to go wiped out by the gravitals
Thanks so much for making this dude, I always wanted to read All Tomorrows but I get distracted stupidly fast so a well preformed audio reading like this is a life saver
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it useful :)
Beautifully read - thank you so much!
No, thank YOU!
Your work is an absolute blessing to the sci fi genre.
I was glad to read in the description that this reading and video has been approved by the author. Excellent performance of an amazing book. Thanks to the reader and the author/artist.
Having already listened to your Man after Man audiobook, this only solidifies how much I enjoy your narration. Thank you for your work!
Thank you for the kind words!
Perfection my friend. Your voice keeps me drawn in but it's also calming and not to distracting to allow me to also work while listening. Thank God because I love auidobooks and can never find a person with a comforting or less aggressive voice
That makes me very happy, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
@@BewareCast and i mentioned every word! I'll be watching waaay more if your content! Keep up the good work!
Amazing. Usually I play audio books before I go to sleep and often do not bother to continue in the morning but this one held my interest from start to end. Really good.
Thanks for posting this, finally gor around to listening, to the whole thing.
Great reader and voice with the right pace. Thanks for doing this. On side note, I didn't expect such an great ending to the book. While TH-cam is filled with a lot of nice skitz etc the end of this book is actually quite meaningful
Thank you! I'm pleased you enjoyed my reading and the story itself.
WOW! This needs a series on some channel, with its integrity kept. I mean man oh man what a story. Thank you for the reading. Waiting for another entry by
C.M Koseman.
This is one of my favourite works of literature. Its so easy to find comfort in the imagination that we are only just maturing as a species and that our journey could be long and twisted.
The final message always sends chills down my spine, how the true message is not about the millions of years of evolution, but rather the individuals journey.
I loved this story SO MUCH cuz it’s helped me through hard times,now I’m making comic about it and I’m so glad that i did because it’s break my anxiety and gave me the courage to go forward and tell more stories ,thank you for reading this masterpiece beautifully.
You're welcome! When you have finished your comic send it over to the email address in the 'About' section on my channel, I'd love to see it
@@BewareCast no problem!
@@BewareCast i did send it
You have the perfect voice for this! Found this channel and had to listen to the book again bc it being read to by such a calm voice wouldve made it even better! And it did! And now that i have found this channel i gotta say you make a lot of fun theories and explanations of the post humans! Subbed!
Cool, thank you so much! I'm glad you like what I've been doing :)
I've listened to the audiobook version almost as many times as I've read it
Am on around 20 right now
I really enjoyed your reading of this, the few insignificant minor criticisms I had, you addressed in the top comment. I do home health care which means I drive a lot, instead of listening to sad news today I had the absolute treat of listening to this. So profound, so dark, so heartbreaking, so beautiful. What a unique concept.
You may not read this comment, but thank you so much for narrating this, you have the perfect voice for it.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This was the best and most coherent rendition of All Tomorrows.
My introduction to all tomorrows was a recommended video after watching some hell divers 2. I'm happy to say I've become another fan ❤
I fell in love with the Modular, Snake, and Pterosapien people. Such noble and strong races.
a) I am still confused why your reading has that less views than "Alt Shift X"´s, I love his channel, but your version is clearly a little bit better and most importantly it is the whole story.
b) as I listened to your reading the 10th time right now, I realised that the humans where already the descendants of a species, changed by the QU. ( same time as they made new species from the dinosaurs ) I don´t think the Qu only stole some species to mix them together to only one new speices on one random planet.
Hey man this is a great video and I'm grateful you posted it.
That was one of the most impactful audiobooks I've ever experienced.
Holy fucking shit I wanna buy both a paper copy and and a display hardcover copy so that I can put it my book shelf
If only it existed in physical form😔
It can be tricky to find a good audiobook, and I am glad I have found this one.
Random comment #10 to help this awesome channel with the algorithm. I listen to this while going to sleep pretty regularly, amazing reading!
24 hours ago I didn't even know this existed. Now, I'm completely immersed and obsessed. Watched several of your vids already and I'm listening to a podcast with C.M. right now on The Alt Shift X. Next on the agenda is ordering some merch.
Its mind boggling how this story pans to a timeline we cant even comprehend, and our own stage of evolution stops in the first few minutes of the story. We havent even set foot on mars and here we are talking about countless fall and dawns of civilization spread throughout light years of the universe growing at a scale we havent even realised yet.
I really enjoyed this, thank you for taking this incredible work of art and putting it in an easy to enjoy form for free on youtube
What a brilliantly performed reading, thank you so much, your other videos are wonderful as well! ♥
Thank you so much for your kind words😊
Crazy thing about this ..there can be really similar things happened in the past like this..
And we can never know that..
Human alone are mysterious there are some theories about how we begins..
But i know for sure we are not alone in the universe.
Absolutely. I spend a good deal of my time researching the Annunaki, the Dead Sea Scrolls and various other possible stories to our true origins. I really do believe our true history is hidden from us.
@@BewareCast I think humanity is pretty well-traced at this point. Life itself however is another matter. And one thing's for sure, there was no advanced civilization settled on a large scale on earth before us, or we would have found traces of it by now, be it ruins or something else.
@@thorveim1174 I don't think we can actually be sure of that, to assume we know everything about human history would be arrogance of the highest order. Plus, they may have found artifacts from humanity's advanced past and simply hidden them... but I don't know for certain and never claim to.
@@BewareCast knowing everything nah. But we do know quite a bit, and whats missing... Is more likely to end up being mundane than something completely out there :p
@@thorveim1174 Possible. I think sometimes the wisest thing a person can say is "I don't know." :)
Great job narrating this! You really captured the dry academic tone this book was going for. And the subtle electrical drone in the background was a nice touch, it added a lot to the mood of the story. Do you have any more books like this you’re thinking of narrating?
Thank you for the compliments! I'm actually looking into doing some more narrations of speculative evolution books, I plan on making a start on one very soon, in fact.
I just thought my tumble dryer was broken kept taking my earplugs out :)
@@BewareCast I've listened to more than enough audiobooks to feel justified in my level of pickiness when it comes to narrators. Until your read here, can't say I've ever found a privately produced audiobook that didn't make me cringe, let alone one that I outright enjoyed. Really well done! I appreciate it all the more because there is no version of this story out there on audible or the like (and I basically only do audiobooks).
Not sure if it's on your radar, but there's a short story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," that I think you could do really well!
Regardless, thank you for this!
@@KDCindustries Thank you for the compliments! I'm glad you enjoyed it :) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is definitely on my radar and something I will be looking into doing fairly soon.
In the meantime, if you're interested, I have two more audiobooks on my channel: Man After Man (5 hrs. long) and Dinosaurs (1 hr. long) which are in a similar vein to All Tomorrows.
Thanks again for watching! :)
@@BewareCast Awesome! Will definitely check those out!!! Thank you!