Future Tense Fiction: Live. Love. Die. Repeat?

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🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, host Maddie Stone talks to David Iserson about “This, but Again.” The story follows Marcus, who is forced to relive his life over and over again in a never-ending computer simulation. Thanks to a glitch, Marcus already knows everything that will happen—but he can change almost nothing. That is until he meets Sara, who helps him break from the simulation’s script. But that, as you might expect, is not without consequences.After the story, Iserson and host Maddie Stone discuss what it would really be like to live in a computer simulation (and why it may actually be more hopeful than dystopian). Guest: David Iserson, film and television writer-producer and author of Firecracker, a novel Story read by David Iserson Podcast production by Tiara Darnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Future Tense Fiction, a podcast featuring stories about how technology could change
0:07.7	tomorrow.
0:08.7	I'm Maddie Stone.
0:11.0	What if technology could reveal everything about your future?
0:15.1	Even if you could change nothing, would you still want to know?
0:19.6	Knowing how my life plays out means I don't have anxiety, I don't fear.
0:24.2	So many things that weigh on people and tear them up are a fear of what's going to happen.
0:28.4	I don't have that, I never have that.
0:31.6	On today's episode, we are bringing you a reading of David Eiser since this but again.
0:37.6	Afterward, David tells us why he thinks life in a vast computer simulation might feel surprisingly
0:43.7	familiar.
0:45.6	That's coming up on Future Tense Fiction, stay with us.
0:58.2	This is Future Tense Fiction, I'm Maddie Stone, I'm a freelance journalist and the editor
1:03.1	of The Science of Fiction, a newsletter about how science and pop culture intersect.
1:08.8	Every month, Slates Future Tense partnership with New America and Arizona State University's
1:14.0	Center for Science and the Imagination publishes a short story that explores how science
1:18.8	and technology will shape our future.
1:21.4	Now, we are bringing some of those stories to you in a podcast that includes a conversation
1:26.0	with the author or an expert in a related field.
1:29.7	Today's story is this but again by David Eiserson.
1:34.0	David is a film and television writer-producer in Los Angeles and the author of the novel
1:38.9	Firecracker.
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