All Our Wrong Todays (Mastai) - Book Reviews

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Elan Mastai’s debut is a sci-fi tour de force—whip smart, imaginative, thoughtful, and funny. The novel is set in 2016, not our 2016 but a techno-utopian 2016—the result of a perpetual energy machine invented in 1965. That new, endless source of clean, cheap energy led to a burst of innovation, accelerated beyond anything we know of in this 2016. Mastai has obvious fun drawing comparisons between his "futuristic" 2016 and ours. One has airborne cars, digital clothing, interactive novels, and worldwide prosperity. The other doesn’t.  READ MORE.
P.J. Adler - LitLovers


[An] amazing debut novel.… Dazzling and complex.… Fearlessly funny storytelling... In the alternative reality of our own day when many long for the chance to turn back time, some solace might be found in the masochistic pleasures of this trippy and ultimately touching novel.
Washington Post


All Our Wrong Todays is an incredibly creative work. It’s as if Mastai time traveled and took copious notes of what a future utopian world would be. The science is as engaging as the romance. Mastai has mastered the art of endearing himself to an audience through both knowledge and entertainment. It’s definitely out of this world — or an alternate universe.
Associated Press


Shades of sci-fi, but also an endearing comedy about family and friendship.
New York Post


[All Our Wrong Todays] earns the case it makes for the messiness, heartbreak and imperfections of our world, and in doing so helped reconnect me to my fellow humans, whom, at the moment, I find inscrutable and frightening in equal measure.
Ron Currie - Chicago Tribune


A time-travel tale that works.… A multiverse trans-timeline love story… All storytelling is time travel, but not all time travel stories are worth telling, and though I don't have the word count to properly place All Our Wrong Todays in the pantheon of chrono adventures (somewhere between Voyagers! and Ken Grimwood's Replay), it more than deserves to be on readers' shelves in any timeline.
Dallas Morning News


On top of this brilliant philosophical premise of parallel versions of one’s life and the people in it—of what might have been had history unfolded different—Mastai’s language is also rife with an infectious humor you won’t be able to stop reading.
HarpersBazaar.com


You don't have to be a sci-fi fan to become totally enthralled with this fresh, time-travel novel by screenwriter Mastai . [A]n utterly clever, entertaining love story.
RealSimple.com


With humor, grace and dizzying skill, Mastai crafts a time-traveling novel that challenges every convention of the trope, and succeeds brilliantly. His droll, unassuming writing style couches a number of razor-sharp critiques while the endless array of...possibilities give the story its drive and irresistible exuberance heartrending, funny, smart, and stunningly, almost brazenly hopeful (a Top Pick).
Romance Times Book Reviews


[I]maginative . [T]he story takes several startling turns as Tom tries to change the future of this timeline. Mastai has fun with all the usual conventions of time travel . and the cherry on top is his dialogue, reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Mastai creates a fascinating tapestry of interconnected alternate realities . A potent mixture of sincere introspection and a riveting examination of time travel and alternate realities, this highly recommended novel is reminiscent of Jo Walton's My Real Children with the breeziness of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.
Library Journal


Mastai's utopian worldbuilding is complex and imaginative . An entertaining rom-com of errors, All Our Wrong Todays backflips through paradoxes while exploring provocative questions of grief and the multitudes we contain within ourselves. Ultimately, it's a story about love—and the stupid things we'll do for it.
BookPage


(Starred review.) [T]he story of the world's first and, unfortunately for us all, most unqualified time traveler. Mastai considers not only the workings, but the consequences (and there are many) of time travel, packing so much into the last 100 pages it feels as if there's a literal weight pressing on your mind. [E]ntertaining.
Kirkus Reviews