What if reality were a simulation?
A story built on the possibility that the world the characters inhabit is an artificial construct or illusion.
What if reality were a simulation? in fiction: 8 works
The protagonists may be dead and inhabiting a simulated afterlife, the novel's destabilizing premise.
A programmer is digitized into the world inside a computer, the film's core conceit.
The Metaverse virtual world runs parallel to the physical one throughout.
Truman's entire life is a fabricated television set, the film's founding conceit.
Humanity unknowingly lives in a machine-run simulation, the film's central premise.
Nested virtual-reality game layers make it impossible to know which level is real.
The Three Body virtual-reality game models the alien world's chaotic history within the story.
Most of life takes place inside the immersive virtual world of the OASIS.
More premises
- What if machines could think?
- What if we could travel through time?
- What if we met an alien intelligence?
- What if we could create life?
- What if we could live forever?
- What if civilization collapsed?
- What if we could edit the mind?
- What if the state controlled everything?
- What if we could engineer humanity?
- What if we settled other worlds?
- What if history had gone differently?