Some of the best parts are how duplicated people react to their impending deletion. Only they are aware and are able to ‘awaken’ duplicated people. Sanderson has some great fun with this by having two real life detectives walking around a copied world. Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson is a great example of this as it poses lots of questions about what is reality – the old, are we all actually in the Matrix argument. On one trip they stumble across what looks like a mass murder, they decide to break protocol and investigate, but when even real life detectives can die in the Snapshot, are they putting themselves in unnecessary danger?Ī lot of Science Fiction can be considered think pieces that make you question what you are reading and what is around you. Davis and Chaz must keep their actions to a minimum to avoid any deviations in this copy from what was once reality.

If someone walked in on you right now and said that you are not actually real, but a snapshot of yourself who will be deleted tonight, what would you do? Laugh? Cry? Commit murder?ĭetectives Davis and Chaz are specialists who help solve crimes in the Snapshot a technological marvel that allows you to recreate a certain day and relive it. We are told to live in the moment don’t worry about the past or the future, it is now that you should care about, but how many of us really do? We spend endless hours checking our phones or having meaningless arguments online.

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