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Elan Mastai's debut novel All Our Wrong Todays is a delight to read. It is thoughtful, speculative, reflective science-fiction. Mastai wanders down plenty of scientific-sounding rabbit trails, enough to make it sound like sci-fi, but not so much that it gets in the way of a great time-travel story.

The story begins in 2016, but not our 2016. In this alternative timeline, the world's most famous scientist invented the Goettreider engine, which produces limitless energy spurred seemingly unlimited technological progress. Tom Barren's father, a protege of the more famous Goettreider, is about to become famous himself, as the inventor of time travel. Tom, the disappointment of the family, the slacker son who has not distinguished himself in any way, screws up the timeline of history by sneaking into his father's lab and traveling back in time to the moment the Goettreider engine is first activated.

When Tom returns to 2016 after his brief foray in the past, he finds himself in our 2016, in a future that has no Goettreider engine and missing all the technological and sociological advances it made possible. He's the same guy, only with memories from both timelines. Somehow he has to figure out who he really is. Plus, he has to convince his family and his girlfriend, who is the same but different in this new timeline, that he's not absolutely crazy.

Wracked with guilt about potentially having eliminated billions of people who were never born as a result of his tinkering with history, he contemplates trying to fix it. But as he tries to explain to Goettreider, "time travel is very bad at fixing mistakes. What it's very good at is creating even worse mistakes." In this sense, All Our Wrong Todays engages many of the same questions countless movies and books about time travel have raised. But Mastai does it oh so well!

One of the real-life ideas (in our timeline, and, apparently in the other timeline as well) that Mastai introduces is French philosopher Paul Virilio's idea concept of the integral accident. As Tom/Mastai describes it, it's "the idea that every time you introduce a new technology, you also introduce the accident of that technology, so you have a responsibility to anticipate not just the good it can do but also the bad it can wreak, not just the glory but also the ruin." The invention of train travel is also the invention of derailment, for example.

Tom/Mastai has written not a novel, but a memoir. "And the best thing about a memoir is it doesn't even need to make sense." But in an entertaining and thoughtful way, All Our Wrong Todays makes perfect sense, and, whether a novel or a memoir, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of reading it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the complimentary electronic review copy!


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All Our Wrong Todays A Novel edition by Elan Mastai Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

This book was well worth reading. I am one of those geeks that love time travel, a particular favorite of mine is Time and Again by Jack Finney. This book was different and approached the idea of time travel much more scientifically. The beginning took awhile to take hold of me, but I am truly happy I stayed with it. Because I kept reading, the story took a hold of me and I really wanted to keep reading, stealing every spare moment to get back into "Tom's" memoir. I will help if you are a geek like me when it comes to books about time travel, and if either understand or don't mind scientific terminology in your reading...so, with that in mind, I think this is a book worth reading and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
I enjoyed this time travel romp very much. I don't read these tales very much because I assume that most of them are all cliche' and hackneyed. This one, however, breaks the mold. Very creative storytelling propels this story of a self-deprecating loser of a young man in a near utopian future who inadvertently alters history at a pivotal technological event, to change to the way you and I know it to be (screwed-up and dystopic) while enhancing his own stature. The parallels to Back to the Future are not unwarranted, although this is an infinitely darker tale. Of course the science fiction requires a substantial suspension of disbelief, but it's the protagonist's neurosis and how he interacts with his family members in the "new" future he created by his own making qualifies as delicious storytelling.
Although this book is far from my own worldview and purpose in writing, I found the author’s style unique and entertaining. The weird leaps through a mind-boggling theme didn’t stump me. The science is wonderfully explained, even if it’s nothing but folly. The protagonist doesn’t even know who he is at times, but his insight is far beyond that of most made-up people. I found myself almost believing Tom or John (or Mr. Mastai) that this was a memoir and not a novel. The profanity is too heavy for my taste, and one chapter in particular is simply unnecessary, but I got through it. Even though my mind became exhausted and I thought more than once, this has got to be the end, I’m glad for the way it ended. Just right. Or wrong. Or…something. Anyway, its a great story.
I read this entire book in a couple days on a couple of long train and plane rides, and it was good I had those blocks of time, because this book is a thrilling page-turner that I really couldn't put down. I found myself really touched by how much the main characters drew me in; I really cared about what happened to them and was getting anxious towards the end when it legitimately wasn't clear how the story would turn out for any of them. Creating good fiction about time travel is a huge challenge (something the book itself references several times in a meta fashion), but Mastai does a masterful job with it - he creates a web of divergent timelines, and even when the reader begins to feel a bit scrambled, he weaves them back together to tie off the loose ends, and he does so in a way that delivers some terrific twists. This book is fun and thought-provoking.
I debated between 3 and 4 stars for this. I was so excited to read this book and love the overall aspect of it, but holy cow, so much exposition. The majority of this book could have been cut out because it was repetitive and unnecessarily internal dialogue. Also Tom was victimy which got really old, really fast. But even saying that, power through and you get a pretty fun time travel book that has a nice story and a surprisingly solid ending. A good read just not as fun as it could be.
Elan Mastai's debut novel All Our Wrong Todays is a delight to read. It is thoughtful, speculative, reflective science-fiction. Mastai wanders down plenty of scientific-sounding rabbit trails, enough to make it sound like sci-fi, but not so much that it gets in the way of a great time-travel story.

The story begins in 2016, but not our 2016. In this alternative timeline, the world's most famous scientist invented the Goettreider engine, which produces limitless energy spurred seemingly unlimited technological progress. Tom Barren's father, a protege of the more famous Goettreider, is about to become famous himself, as the inventor of time travel. Tom, the disappointment of the family, the slacker son who has not distinguished himself in any way, screws up the timeline of history by sneaking into his father's lab and traveling back in time to the moment the Goettreider engine is first activated.

When Tom returns to 2016 after his brief foray in the past, he finds himself in our 2016, in a future that has no Goettreider engine and missing all the technological and sociological advances it made possible. He's the same guy, only with memories from both timelines. Somehow he has to figure out who he really is. Plus, he has to convince his family and his girlfriend, who is the same but different in this new timeline, that he's not absolutely crazy.

Wracked with guilt about potentially having eliminated billions of people who were never born as a result of his tinkering with history, he contemplates trying to fix it. But as he tries to explain to Goettreider, "time travel is very bad at fixing mistakes. What it's very good at is creating even worse mistakes." In this sense, All Our Wrong Todays engages many of the same questions countless movies and books about time travel have raised. But Mastai does it oh so well!

One of the real-life ideas (in our timeline, and, apparently in the other timeline as well) that Mastai introduces is French philosopher Paul Virilio's idea concept of the integral accident. As Tom/Mastai describes it, it's "the idea that every time you introduce a new technology, you also introduce the accident of that technology, so you have a responsibility to anticipate not just the good it can do but also the bad it can wreak, not just the glory but also the ruin." The invention of train travel is also the invention of derailment, for example.

Tom/Mastai has written not a novel, but a memoir. "And the best thing about a memoir is it doesn't even need to make sense." But in an entertaining and thoughtful way, All Our Wrong Todays makes perfect sense, and, whether a novel or a memoir, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of reading it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the complimentary electronic review copy!