Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Élan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays, his first novel.

Elan is first a screenwriter, and in fact, All Our Wrong Todays published just last week, by Dutton/Penguins going to be a movie and Elan is in the process of writing the screenplay for it right now.

Elan has been writing for about fifteen years for independent companies and for Fox Sony Warner Brothers and Paramount. He wrote What if (also known as The F word) starring Daniel Radcliffe and another great move is 2012’s The Samaritan staring Samuel Jackson.

Look, I’m old enough to remember reading Popular Science and Popular Mechanics when I was a kid, and seeing jetpacks and flying cars, amphibious vehicles, highways made of tracks that would accelerate and decelerate on command, domed cities on the moon and mars. I missed the fact that the future never arrived. I could never understand how 22 billion could get us to the moon 6 times in the 60s and 70s and we’re not plumbing the depths of Europa’s seas as we speak. What the hell happened?

It just doesn’t make any sense.

But guess what, Elan explains it all. See we didn’t lose the future, we just lost the time. We got stuck in some backwater reality due to the mistakes of a dorky protagonist named Tom, who mistakenly uses a time machine to undo what was a pretty cool reality, with perfectly ripe avocados and greats sleep with great dreams and turn it into our waking day to day reality of traffic jams leftover remembers of semi nightmares and architecture that sucks.

But all is not lost, because as Elan will surely explain, there is more than one way to skin the past, although each of those ways is fraught with peril.