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@robertlunn51413 күн бұрын
I enjoyed this. I like that so much was left unspoken.
@escgoogle38653 күн бұрын
If you ever want to write a contemporary cop story. I "really" want to know more about the Belgian guy hunting down the alien art thieves.
@nikhein3 күн бұрын
All my sci-fi stories are original, written, and translated by me. You will not find them anywhere else, like Reddit or any other website (well, most of them), so subscribe and hit the notification button to stay tuned to the channel. I upload fresh science fiction every week, and your views help me put more time into writing them. Thank you; you are the best audience ever! If you would like to support the author (me) directly, you can do it here: www.buymeacoffee.com/buddha2ndo
@frigidmonk5 күн бұрын
Hi Nik, your English is fine. No problem for this native speaker to follow even the few misspeaks were not so glaring as to ruin the experience. Keep narrating your own work. You will only continue to get better. Fun story!😎👍
@markfergerson21455 күн бұрын
The damn text was so bad I had t stop looking at it. That should be Jarl, dammit. AI spielchuckers suck worse than AI voices. Fortunately this story is very appropriate to be read in your voice. A story of loyalty, betrayal, courage and cowardice, of complacency and urgency, of hope and of fate.
@nikhein5 күн бұрын
Sorry... It seems that no matter how hard I try to make everything right, I'm only making things worse. Nothing is working as it supposed to be, and I'm just ruining my stories and the audience's experience, destroying the channel. I don't want to admit that I'm defeated by AI-generated crap, but reality is bitter and unforgiving... This channel seemed to me as on of the ways to my dream, but it looks like I was way too optimistic and tried to jump over my head... Sorry.
@dennisthornton44346 күн бұрын
I can imagine this as a Viking accent. Very fun story.
@frigidmonk6 күн бұрын
“We all have our own Ragnarok.” 👏🏼😎 Well done sir!
@EZurg6 күн бұрын
Awesome thanks
@frigidmonk8 күн бұрын
I’m going to listen to all 8 parts of this story as my baptism in FIRE 🔥 to your work! I like your thumbnails and the few of the random seconds of story clips I listened to so, I subscribed. Don’t usually do this video unfinished but, I’m feeling LUCKY!🍀😁
@gameman019 күн бұрын
yo cool subbed
@gameman019 күн бұрын
sub pls
@deplorable1-211 күн бұрын
A nine-year-old girl. Alone on an unfamiliar planet. Equipped with only what she can carry. That is the defination of a SHORT story.
@nikhein11 күн бұрын
And also, a carrier of the super lethal and super virulent disease. The story would even shorter for everyone there.
@markfergerson214511 күн бұрын
It depends on where and how the nine year old was brought up. For a city kid you’d likely be right but even granting that there are exceptions. For a country kid the odds are far better. I was raised in Southern California but by rednecks. At age nine I could safely build and tend a smokeless fire, build a shelter and find edible plants and clean water. I knew how to identify and avoid predators, how to build snares and fishing equipment from what grew in the forest, how to clean and cook what I caught. Those same rednecks taught their girls the same skills. Not all learned and practiced equally well of course but all of us were as near to self-sufficient as they could make us. That was long before “preppers” were a thing- I’m 71. It was just how kids were taught back then, and still are in lots of places around this world. When you don’t have modern technology to support you, having our oldest technologies stored in your head is a huge advantage.
@markfergerson214511 күн бұрын
@@nikheinNow I’m confused. What does “zero carriers” refer to? Zero chances taken on someone being a carrier, or that non-carriers exist? Did the girl confuse what she had heard with her not being a carrier?
@nikhein10 күн бұрын
@@markfergerson2145 I guess that's my bad. I should have gone more into the details and left the initial term "index case" in, but I felt that this story should be short and sharp without detailed explanations. The idea is that the father and the girl are carriers of the pathogen but are not sick themselves.
@tyotypic10 күн бұрын
I listened to the story twice before reading these comments. I initially thought that the dust in their ship had been the tiny mosquito thing from the ending, which was bringing the disease. With your stories, you never know- I even considered the possibility that they WERE the mosquitoes/ disease and were pretending to be human, etc etc.
@markfergerson214512 күн бұрын
Oh, what a tangled web someone has woven…
@nikhein12 күн бұрын
Two more chapters and I will release first big chunk of series compiled together )
@timothyroberts749713 күн бұрын
Love it. Fresh idea and great execution.❤
@Falha-Critica13 күн бұрын
A great vindication for all conspiracy theorists. To think he was so ahead that people couldn't comprehend his brilliance. Rest in peace, Captain Liberty!
@robertlunn514114 күн бұрын
Wonderful. One of your best.
@Telleryn14 күн бұрын
Just a warning for headphone users, uncomfortably loud high pitch noises
@nikhein14 күн бұрын
Ouch, sorry. I thought I made it low enough... Was OK when I was testing ( My bad.
@lawrenceburchett741114 күн бұрын
An so it unfolds, that a mind talks so ...Perhaps, , you might even say , that what you wish that day.But due to will and that what happens , better damn well fix the FTL reactor, otherwise we are in a ration of s***t and I wont be able to help you a bit ,be well Niko ....Sorry old Boat builders do ramble .....
@michaelMix-fl9ic14 күн бұрын
Fri 2-8-24...westcliff...Essex....england
@user-jl8mp6lg4i15 күн бұрын
Thursday
@user-jl8mp6lg4i15 күн бұрын
Completed
@paulbooth395315 күн бұрын
I love your narrations Nik! If anything, hearing you narrate your own story, gives me more insight into the character. When you describe the environment I actually visualize and feel the drama. Good work!
@nikhein15 күн бұрын
Thank you!!!
@orctimusprime902916 күн бұрын
Hey hey Will give this a listen!
@lawrenceburchett741116 күн бұрын
Very nice Niko
@firozdharani864716 күн бұрын
Your voice is beautiful Difficult for non english reader Like me But better than ai Speed is good Thankyou Small village 100km from nairobi kenya Sorry, i heard you for next 10 minutes and had difficulty following your voice ai voice is better for me Not your fault, english is not my first language I am learning, narator makes all the difference in a story
@dennisthornton443416 күн бұрын
Sounds good, different than AI reading. Glad you finally decided to put up your stories. I agree on your opinion of AI writing stories.
@nikhein16 күн бұрын
Ergh.... ALL stories on my channel are written by me ) The only thing that changed is narration (and not for all stories yet).
@nikhein16 күн бұрын
The Val is back! This is the second sci-fi short story in the series about a galactic private detective set in my universe of the Human-Ullerian conflict. This time, Val arrives on a desert planet on assignment from a powerful corporation to find something... And, as always, he sees the job through. This one is written more in a classic western style, though with some light touch of noir crime drama. Again, narrated by me, so for those who will be troubled to fight through my accent, I added the custom subtitles. If you would like to support the author (me) directly, you can do it here: www.buymeacoffee.com/buddha2ndo
@markfergerson214516 күн бұрын
Welcome back, Val.. and you too Nik. The noir style does not have to be limited to classic inner city Private Eye stories. You’re demonstrating that here. This American fan of the Western genre thinks you did pretty good with this one. I can see Clint Eastwood playing Val in the film but his accent and command of Russian syntax (well, to be real, the writers command of Russian syntax) didn’t do him any favors in Firefox. I have never thought to ask if the noir style has any popularity in Slavic countries. From the outside it would seem a good match for the (probably propaganda based) Slavic fatalism. On the other hand fatalism is the conviction that things will go to hell, while noir assumes that things have already gone to hell and can never get better. I’m thinking of the extreme embodied by the character Rohrshach in the Watchmen. Val isn’t quite that far gone. He proved that by pulling a happy ending for the girls out of disaster.
@nikhein16 күн бұрын
@@markfergerson2145 As always, thank you for the comment! First, I liked your mention of the good ol' Clint, though I stole the juicy phrases for Val from Lee van Cliff's character, Angel Eyes. For me, it was a sort of game within the game-to make this guy not as bad as he was in the movie. Speaking of the popularity of noir in the Slavic countries. It's hard to tell. (by the way, Estonia is not a Slavic country, but after 50 years within the USSR it's pretty complicated now). In a way, you could call it popular, but that's mostly post-soviet popularity because before, it was barely ever translated, with very few exceptions. It's an interesting question, by the way. Worth exploring more. As for the Val, there's one thing I want to mention. He is not just a tired P.I. working on some cases to support his income. He is also a veteran and former prisoner of war with (probably) heavy PTSD problems. And the world he is living in is not that bright either, something like Europe right after WW2 - still bearing a lot of scars from the catastrophe. The same goes for my Backwater Station series, by the way, and all this Human-Ullerian conflict metaverse.
@VV-nw4cz17 күн бұрын
Is there a way to listen to your stories or read them as-is (not translated)?