The Egg

Andy Weir first posted it free on his website, Galactanet, on August 15, 2009, and it remains freely available online. Readers have since translated it into dozens of languages, and it also appears in his collection The Egg and Other Stories.

Yes. In September 2019 the animation studio Kurzgesagt released an authorized adaptation that was more than two years in the making, which introduced the story to a much wider audience.

Yes. Logic’s 2017 album Everybody draws its central concept from the story, and Weir’s idea of a single soul living every life runs through the record.

It is a very short story — around a thousand words — built as a single conversation. Despite its length it is Weir’s most widely read short work and is frequently collected and adapted.