Who Did Time Travel Best? — Intentionally Blank Ep. 173
Intentionally Blank
Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells
4.9 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I had a good story idea. |
| 0:05.8 | Ooh, we don't do those on this show. |
| 0:07.9 | Yeah, I know. |
| 0:09.1 | And I was looking for a story to put in the non-cosmere Brandon Sanderson Collection, right? |
| 0:16.8 | I've got all these stories that I think are pretty fun, but they aren't in the Cosmere, right? |
| 0:22.8 | So I've done Snapshot, Perfect State, and Defending Elysium, and all of this stuff that's my kind of science fictiony stuff. |
| 0:31.6 | And I wanted a cornerstone story that hadn't been released before, right? |
| 0:38.2 | Always nice in the collection, has something new. |
| 0:40.9 | And so I was like, I want to write a little science fiction story. |
| 0:44.9 | And I came up with an idea. |
| 0:46.7 | And I really liked it. |
| 0:48.0 | And so I've been writing that novella. |
| 0:50.2 | The basic premise is two cops out on the beat. |
| 0:55.1 | They don't think it's anything special, but they get involved in something, an explosion |
| 0:59.8 | happens, and one wakes up three days in the future, and one wakes up three days in the past. |
| 1:04.3 | And they have to figure out they have a cell phone that is entangled so they can chat with |
| 1:10.0 | each other. |
| 1:10.5 | Yeah. And they got to figure out what happened because the one three days in the future is living at a post-apocalypse. And so it's like you can talk to the person in the future to find out the post-apocalypse and the one in the past kind of has to solve the mystery together while the one in the future is surviving. Yeah. I remember you telling me about this. |
| 1:28.7 | I think it sounds awesome. |
| 1:30.3 | It's been really fun to write. |
| 1:32.4 | And so, yeah, it got us thinking. |
| 1:35.6 | When I mentioned this to you, we're like, we should talk time travel. |
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