)Įlan Mastai’s debut is a sci-fi tour de force-whip smart, imaginative, thoughtful, and funny. He lives with his wife and children and an Australian Shepherd named Ruby Slippers in Toronto. He studied film at Queen's University and Concordia University. Mastai was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Canadian mother and an Israeli immigrant father.
A time-travel-goes-awry tale, the book's breezy, humorous style has been compared to Adam Douglas's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. His debut novel, All the Wrong Todays was published in 2017 and is rumored to have fetched a seven figure advance.
He is best known for The F Word, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. Currently-lives in Toronto, Ontario, CanadaĮlan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist.Education-Queens University Concordia University.Where-Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
It is a story of friendship and family, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths, and of love in its multitude of forms.įilled with humor and heart, and saturated with insight and intelligence and a mind-bending talent for invention, this novel signals the arrival of a major talent. Tom's search for the answer takes him across countries, continents, and timelines in a quest to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his future-our future-is supposed to be.Īll Our Wrong Todays is about the versions of ourselves that we shed and grow into over time. Does he fix the flow of history, bringing his utopian universe back into existence, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy, unpredictable reality? In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world.įor Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.īut when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and-maybe, just maybe-his soul mate, Tom has a decision to make. Utterly blindsided by an accident of fate, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed.because it wasn't necessary.Įxcept Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down. You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened.
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