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

Published: April 29, 2023, 7 a.m.

On this month\u2019s episode of Future Tense Fiction, host Maddie Stone talks to David Iserson about \u201cThis, but Again.\u201d 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\u2014but he can change almost nothing. That is until he meets Sara, who helps him break from the simulation\u2019s 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).\nGuest:\xa0David Iserson, film and television writer-producer and author of\xa0Firecracker, a novel\nStory read by David Iserson\nPodcast production by Tiara Darnell\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices