Thirty years in the future, Wasserman should be celebrating retirement. Instead, he begins to suspect that everything around him is coming apart.

People are increasingly alienated, conspiracy theories dominate public discourse, and meaningful connections are up in the air. As the party for him draws near, two former acquaintances with deep ties to international power quietly reenter his life. At the same time, his wife appears increasingly entangled with shadowy global organizations and events she cannot fully explain.

Meanwhile, a client developing a groundbreaking memory drug presents Wasserman with an extraordinary opportunity: the chance to revisit the past and reconnect with unfinished chapters of his life. But as memory, identity, and history begin to blur, he must confront larger questions about the future, the stories people tell themselves, and whether society has lost its ability to think beyond the present moment.

Part satire, part speculative fiction, and part philosophical reflection, Then Again explores narcissism, memory, geopolitics, and humanity's complicated relationship with time. Wryly humorous and intellectually engaging, it offers both a sharp critique of modern culture and a hopeful meditation on what may still lie ahead.

About the Author

Joseph Wolf is a fiction writer and essayist based in Portland, Oregon. He is fascinated by society's harebrained attempts to modify identity amid what he sees as the collapse of time itself—no past, no future, no coherent thinking, no problem.

In a former life, he was a rabbi and teacher of sacred texts. Today, when he is not writing, he enjoys cooking, baking, and welcoming guests to his table. He lives with his brilliant wife and their cat and is the proud father of four amazing adult children.