This book is Tom's memoir, written for his soon-to-be-born child about how he saved the world but no one knows because, you know, time travel hijincks. The way the story is told is very, very aggravating. It's a bunch of time travel nonsense, which I'm always really excited about and then never actually like. Do you get it? Our very own lives are actually the dystopia? Anyway, the world is much worse but he winds up in a duplicate copy of his family that is much better than his original family falls in love with a duplicate copy of his girlfriend who is much better than his original girlfriend and narrowly avoids duplicating his original time travel accident, which would have created an even worse reality than this one. There are some clever ideas here, but the way this book is written is so obnoxious that a three star rating feels exceptionally generous.Īll Our Wrong Todays is the story of Tom Barren, who travels back in time to the exact moment the future was born and fucks up the timeline so irretrievably that he winds up in our reality.

Does he fix the flow of history, bringing his utopian universe back into existence, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy, unpredictable reality? Tom’s search for the answer takes him across countries, continents, and timelines in a quest to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his future-our future-is supposed to be. For Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.īut when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and-maybe, just maybe-his soul mate, Tom has a decision to make. In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world.

Utterly blindsided by an accident of fate, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. because it wasn't necessary.Įxcept Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened.

All our wrong todays by elan mastai