He laments that he did something that caused the end of that reality, but he does not explain further.
In his old world, intelligent machine servants and hover cars are ubiquitous.
He claims to hail from an extraordinary alternate reality in which technological advancement far surpasses our own. At the beginning of the “memoir,” Tom Barren introduces himself. It ties these themes to the familiar modern struggle of the individual to find his correct time and place in a shifting and unreliable world. The novel falls into the postmodern genre for its involvement of many metaphors from quantum physics, including the metaphor of parallel universes. Tom vacillates between the present and past tense without establishing clear chronological guideposts, suggesting that he is still split between different realities and that these realities occasionally converge. While repeatedly apologizing for his self-perceived inability to write a “good” report of his life, he attempts to explain how he was stranded in his readers’ ordinary universe. All Our Wrong Todays, a speculative novel by Elan Mastai, is told from the perspective of Tom Barren, an unreliable narrator who claims to be a time-traveler from an alternate universe who is trying to write his memoir.
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