In our 2016, Tom has a happier life, with a warm family, supportive girlfriend, and successful career. (A less specific version of it-thankfully, Donald Trump does not pop up for a cameo.) But while humanity gets the short end of the time-travelling stick, Tom does not.
Tom erases the 2016 he knows and becomes stuck in the 2016 we all know. This brief foray into the past has disastrous results. He sends himself back to July 11, 1965, the day a different scientist turned on the Goettreider Engine, a machine that “generate unlimited, robust, absolutely clean energy” and catapulted the world toward its future utopia. In an irrational blur of these feelings, Tom decides to take a spin on his scientist father’s time machine-even though he has told us many times that he is unqualified to do so. Even though he lacks for little, Tom can’t escape the realities of grief, loss, and heartbreak. Sounds particularly good after the real 2016, doesn’t it?īut it doesn’t sound great to Tom Barren, the protagonist in Elan Mastai’s debut novel All Our Wrong Todays. Imagine the year 2016 as a techno-utopian alternate reality-one where political conflicts and material desires are extinct, and flying cars are indeed a mode of transportation.
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