All Our Wrong Todays
Tom Barren grew up in the 2016 we were promised, a chrome and clean utopia powered by limitless energy where flying cars hum and disease has been forgotten. After a botched run in his father's experimental time machine, Tom wakes in our 2016 instead, a jagged and imperfect world that the version of himself born here has been quietly building a better life inside. Elan Mastai's debut blends physics-tinged science fiction with a comic memoir voice, asking which timeline a person should fight to keep when the wrong one feels more like home. The result is a tender, wryly funny novel about grief, identity, and the strange comfort of a world that breaks your heart in interesting ways.
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A man from a 2016 that turned out the way mid-century futurists imagined breaks the timeline and ends up in our 2016 instead. His old life was easier. His new one feels more like home.
All Our Wrong Todays was written by Elan Mastai and published in 2017. Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter who also wrote The F Word. All Our Wrong Todays is his debut novel.
A film adaptation has been in development with Paramount Pictures and director Vincenzo Natali, with Elan Mastai writing the screenplay. The project was announced in 2015 and remains in development with no confirmed release date.
All Our Wrong Todays is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, All Our Wrong Todays takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
All Our Wrong Todays is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
All Our Wrong Todays is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.