It has a literary bent, and is more akin to something like The Time Traveler’s Wifethan The Time Machine. The book has been described in some places as a sci-fi novel for those who don’t necessarily like science fiction. It has the tenor of an oral story, but the ambitious plot and worldbuilding of a much more traditional science fiction tome. A self-centered privileged man with the power to change history and the perspective of a grasshopper: another topical element of this book.Ī self-aware “memoir,” All Our Wrong Todayshas an unusual structure for a time travel novel. As the book progresses, Tom begins to gain some perspective on how his actions affect others, but it literally takes him diverting history for the lesson to sink in. Or, more accurately, we’re his closest confidante. It is unsettling, at times, to be so strapped to such a self-indulgent, thoughtless narrator.
The conceit casts All Our Wrong Today s’often unlikable protagonist as our closest confidante. There’s something slightly comforting, not to mention generically clever, about spending time in a fictional reality where our timeline is the “wrong” one.
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