"The Egg" is a fictional short story by American writer Andy Weir,[1] first published on his website Galactanet on August 15, 2009.
The being adds that you were also once John Wilkes Booth, every Holocaust victim and every person who followed Jesus.
In a 2015 interview with the Craftsman Founder Podcast, Weir discussed his motivation for writing "The Egg", among other topics.
[5] Rapper Logic used "The Egg" as inspiration for his album Everybody released in 2017, re-imagined in the interlude track "Waiting Room" and featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson as God.
Hjalmar Ekström Wikander, Tage Hervén, Walter Schönenbröcher, Fred Grant, Andrej Dojkic, Timothy Judd, Ben Brand, Gabrielle Salonga, Josef Orlandi and Nataliia Weaver have all directed one of those adaptations.