I'm going through all your stories that I haven't read/listened to yet and I'm finding all the detail and nuances in the stories are so satisfying. My favourite little bit from this story is "the beekeepers" nickname/jargon
Cheers, Osmia! I just edited a book for another author, and that was one of my favorite parts of this writer's work too. Little details that enliven the story. Glad you're finding them in my work!
As I listen to this series collectively. I am starting to see parallels to real life. The neuro chips vs todays cell phones. The way ppl are acting today. Great stuff.
Great stuff! Julian always feels like a natural set piece and never a deus ex machina. It's always a delight when one of your stories suddenly connects to the others.
For me too, greyghost! I think that's because I try not to force it and let the connections that are there develop. Seems to happen more than I expect 😄
You are a nice find, Science fiction audio books that are good are a treat to the mind. Most is A I is mostly generated, so sad. Yours seams to be Author generated.whitch does not to be your way. Thanks for your books, so many. Don't know how you create them Any apologies
Hi, David! Glad you found me too 😃 I do indeed create them myself and am not an AI (at least that I know about 😂) There's really no secret to it. I write a new story almost every week, and the weeks add up fast!
I don't know any way to put this softly, but the design of The Jacks just won't work. The rotation creates a centrifugal force that must be worked against both for holding the asteroids in their places on the structure and for removing material from them. Looking at the picture in the thumbnail produces the same paradox in my mind as seeing trees in minecraft that don't reach the ground. One part says "That's falling", while another part says "but it's clearly not", and the part entrusted with synthesizing the information says "that's a good indication that it's not real." I can still enjoy the story with this anomalous structure in it though. A fourth voice in my head says " 'E could grip it by the husk", and I am able move on.
It's not a question of where 'E grips it! 🤣🤣🤣 A five ounce bird ...!!! Thanks, David. I think what I envisioned, if I recall correctly, was a sort of auger/screw-type effect of the connecting cylinder being driven well into the asteroid's body before the whole unit was ever brought to a spin. Not sure if that would make any difference, but that's for the engineers to figure out. I'm just a simple story engineer 😃
Being in the pathology field, I thought the autopsy scene felt antiquated, out of place in a futuristic setting. AI-assisted and digital pathology techniques are already on the way, and these guys are still using microscopes? Also, a neurologist and a neurosurgeon are two different specialities, so I’m still confused about as to what exactly is the main character supposed to be. A general surgeon with a strong background in neurology, therefore special interest in neurosurgery? These are observations, not criticism, which I thought might be interesting to share. I am otherwise thoroughly enjoying your works and am busy going through the entire back catalog on this channel. I really admire your discipline to the craft, being able to put out such high quality stories week after week.
Thanks for the feedback and the supportive words, Tomek. This is reaching back a few months for me, so I can't recall exactly how it was explained in the story. Luisa, though, became a general surgeon after a rotation in neurosurgery (if I recall correctly), so I think it's as you framed it. Your observations about the pathology scenes are fair, and obviously I'll never have the expertise in fields like forensic pathology or engineering like some readers/listeners do, but in some ways, that may be a good thing from a narrative standpoint. It's always a difficult choice between accuracy and creating a scene that would feel realistic to the average reader. Sometimes accuracy may come at the expense of over-explanation in details, whereas a familiar but maybe antiquated scene may do the job better for most readers with respect to keeping the story moving. Not saying I always get this equation right (I definitely don't), but that's the tradeoff. I wonder too, whether some 100-years future tech in these fields would seem so much like magic to even today's experts that it may seem like hand waving from a narrative standpoint. A tough call to get right, even in a longer timeframe. Hopefully, they'll nail it in the movie adaptation 😄 I really appreciate the feedback on this story, and I'm glad to hear you're enjoying! Thanks so much for listening.
@@SubyBristow I understand, though. Anything that breaks the immersion tends to disrupt the story. It's a challenge to not do it for everyone with all different specialties and a story every week, but I imagine I offend the physicists most 🤣 Should have paid more attention in Physics class, for sure.
A bit harsh. Every single autopsy scene I've ever seen is: body on table, tray of scalpels/utensils, kitchen scales for weighing organs, microscopes that show a 'never seen anything like it before' at a cellular level
Yet another enthralling tale.
I'm going through all your stories that I haven't read/listened to yet and I'm finding all the detail and nuances in the stories are so satisfying.
My favourite little bit from this story is "the beekeepers" nickname/jargon
Cheers, Osmia! I just edited a book for another author, and that was one of my favorite parts of this writer's work too. Little details that enliven the story. Glad you're finding them in my work!
Wait till you come across 'Behave monkey!'.
As I listen to this series collectively. I am starting to see parallels to real life. The neuro chips vs todays cell phones. The way ppl are acting today. Great stuff.
Thanks, MosJeff! Art imitates life too. Glad you're enjoying 😃🙏
Excellent as usual.
Great stuff! Julian always feels like a natural set piece and never a deus ex machina. It's always a delight when one of your stories suddenly connects to the others.
For me too, greyghost! I think that's because I try not to force it and let the connections that are there develop. Seems to happen more than I expect 😄
Hitting the wall of reality sucks! This is a good example.
Especially in space! Thanks, Keith!
Thanks❤
PTSD
Or shell shock.
The world is not the safe place you thought it was.
Growing up is watching your ideas die.
Thanks, Martin! Certainly some of those ideas die along the way, I reckon. Hopefully only the ones that should.
Damn the excerpts from this series are wonderful!!!
Thanks, Ty! The novel needs one more pass before getting it out into the world. This fall I'll be working on it!
Excellent story!
Cheers, JoBeth! Glad you enjoyed it!
You're a great storyteller and one smart cookie.
🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
Great title too.
I am not a cookie 😂😂 I'm more of a scone 😃Thanks, Vicki!
Sounds like those workers need to get a good union in the Belt!
I enjoyed this story thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Dean!
Very nice ambiguity
Although i think the listener knows whom to trust. Suspenseful.
Thanks, Martin!
Good one, thanks
Cheers, Charles! 🙏😃
Ready for the next story in this series. 😂 I'd be interested to know these characters better as well as how the implants were dealt with. Thank you.
Thanks, Tara! There's actually another one coming up shortly for "Space Towers" in a couple weeks. This is a deep rabbit hole 🐇😄
@@RoweLit I so appreciate your stories and your narrating. You have a gift. Thank you for sharing it.
@@tarajoyce3598 Thank you, Tara. Happy to!
Brilliant!!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed, OP! 😃
Implants, topical, apt 😉
Very clever dialog.
Cheers, Martin!
The corporatocracy may be listening...
👂Could you repeat that please? 😃
brilliant
Cheers, Veronica!
Very dark 👍
Cheers, Peter 😲🙏😃
Interesting story😊
Thanks, Kojoanna!
👍
🙏😃
Mark CEN CA wow really like this one PE guess I like murder mysterys after all 😂😂
You are a nice find, Science fiction audio books that are good are a treat to the mind. Most is A I is mostly generated, so sad. Yours seams to be Author generated.whitch does not to be your way. Thanks for your books, so many. Don't know how you create them Any apologies
Hi, David! Glad you found me too 😃 I do indeed create them myself and am not an AI (at least that I know about 😂) There's really no secret to it. I write a new story almost every week, and the weeks add up fast!
Hey PE morning from Central California
Pretty out there as I recall 😃
Mark CEN CA @@RoweLityep from DALLAS originally
Mark CEN CA 😮
I don't know any way to put this softly, but the design of The Jacks just won't work. The rotation creates a centrifugal force that must be worked against both for holding the asteroids in their places on the structure and for removing material from them. Looking at the picture in the thumbnail produces the same paradox in my mind as seeing trees in minecraft that don't reach the ground. One part says "That's falling", while another part says "but it's clearly not", and the part entrusted with synthesizing the information says "that's a good indication that it's not real." I can still enjoy the story with this anomalous structure in it though. A fourth voice in my head says " 'E could grip it by the husk", and I am able move on.
It's not a question of where 'E grips it! 🤣🤣🤣 A five ounce bird ...!!!
Thanks, David. I think what I envisioned, if I recall correctly, was a sort of auger/screw-type effect of the connecting cylinder being driven well into the asteroid's body before the whole unit was ever brought to a spin. Not sure if that would make any difference, but that's for the engineers to figure out. I'm just a simple story engineer 😃
Being in the pathology field, I thought the autopsy scene felt antiquated, out of place in a futuristic setting. AI-assisted and digital pathology techniques are already on the way, and these guys are still using microscopes? Also, a neurologist and a neurosurgeon are two different specialities, so I’m still confused about as to what exactly is the main character supposed to be. A general surgeon with a strong background in neurology, therefore special interest in neurosurgery?
These are observations, not criticism, which I thought might be interesting to share. I am otherwise thoroughly enjoying your works and am busy going through the entire back catalog on this channel. I really admire your discipline to the craft, being able to put out such high quality stories week after week.
Thanks for the feedback and the supportive words, Tomek. This is reaching back a few months for me, so I can't recall exactly how it was explained in the story. Luisa, though, became a general surgeon after a rotation in neurosurgery (if I recall correctly), so I think it's as you framed it. Your observations about the pathology scenes are fair, and obviously I'll never have the expertise in fields like forensic pathology or engineering like some readers/listeners do, but in some ways, that may be a good thing from a narrative standpoint. It's always a difficult choice between accuracy and creating a scene that would feel realistic to the average reader. Sometimes accuracy may come at the expense of over-explanation in details, whereas a familiar but maybe antiquated scene may do the job better for most readers with respect to keeping the story moving. Not saying I always get this equation right (I definitely don't), but that's the tradeoff. I wonder too, whether some 100-years future tech in these fields would seem so much like magic to even today's experts that it may seem like hand waving from a narrative standpoint. A tough call to get right, even in a longer timeframe. Hopefully, they'll nail it in the movie adaptation 😄 I really appreciate the feedback on this story, and I'm glad to hear you're enjoying! Thanks so much for listening.
Dude READS or I should say listens to much into tales, as if yr spose to know neurosurgery . Lol. Gray
@@SubyBristow I understand, though. Anything that breaks the immersion tends to disrupt the story. It's a challenge to not do it for everyone with all different specialties and a story every week, but I imagine I offend the physicists most 🤣 Should have paid more attention in Physics class, for sure.
Perk. Movie?
A bit harsh. Every single autopsy scene I've ever seen is: body on table, tray of scalpels/utensils, kitchen scales for weighing organs, microscopes that show a 'never seen anything like it before' at a cellular level
Cool
Thanks, Klif!