Variants

A pilot from the future crash-lands in the wrong century and collides headfirst with the most dangerous invention ever built: a polite time machine with opinions.When Buck Rogers stumbles into the garden of H.G. Wells, history bends, manners become currency, and time itself starts issuing receipts. Together with a relentlessly practical gardener who treats causality like household accounting, the unlikely trio begin testing a device that doesn't simply move through time, but negotiates with it. Every action carries a bill. Every shortcut demands payment. And every joke hides a consequence.As malfunctioning machines, talking hardware, mischievous motifs, and temporal paradoxes pile up, Buck and Wells are dragged into a cascading series of absurd experiments, accidental futures, and reality-bending misunderstandings. Karaoke across epochs, frozen gardens, sentient objects, and looping timelines collide in a world where comedy and dread share the same clock face.Where Tomorrow Went blends classic science fiction homage with sharp modern satire, playful language, and philosophical mischief. Beneath the humor lies a meditation on responsibility, invention, unintended consequences, and the strange ways humans try to negotiate with time instead of living inside it.Inventive, strange, funny, and quietly unsettling, this is a book for readers who enjoy speculative fiction that laughs while it thinks.