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The Egg

short story about the meaning and purpose of life and humankind
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Summary

The Egg is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.72% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,586 views/month, #206 of 28,446).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Andy Weir[3]
  • Genre: speculative fiction[4]
  • Language of work or name: English[5]
  • Country of origin: United States[6]
  • Publication date: 2009[7]
  • Official website: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html[8], http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_ar.html[9]
  • Title: The Egg[10]
  • Form of creative work: short story[11]

Why It Matters

The Egg has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

literary work United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'de', 'en', 'id', 'ja', 'jv', 'ko', 'pt', 'ro', 'tr', 'uk', 'wuu']
    Bookbrainz work id → 0c4b4fa1-00e7-44d7-a513-d2d72ffd8b96
    Sitelink count → 13
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 12w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Website → —
    Publication date → +2009-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Publication date → —
    Language of work or name → English
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||de, pt */ import labels from sitelinks"
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