Mastai explained that his grandfather had an extensive collection of 1950s and 1960s science fiction magazines with "wild, weird stories and ... garishly painted covers of robots and rocket ships, mad scientists and nifty technology.

Tom's domineering father, Victor Barren invents the time machine and wants to send someone back to 1965 to witness Lionel turning on his engine.

A startled Lionel turns his engine off again, and this erases Tom's utopian timeline and he finds himself in 2016 in our present-day technologically-stunted realty.

In a review in Locus magazine, American science fiction author Paul Di Filippo called All Our Wrong Todays "a great and exceptional find".

Di Filippo said Mastai handles the genre with "playful fluency" and "does not make a single misstep with his speculations or language".

[12] Di Filippo added that the book's "elaborate paradoxes and causal loops that any great time travel novel must offer" puts it alongside "classics such as Heinlei's By His Bootstraps".

Burt also found the book clever in the way it describes our reality as the "wrong" one, and how the protagonist is an unreliable narrator who is "often unlikable ... self-indulgent [and] thoughtless".

[14] Donohue added that readers who sometimes wish they could turn back the clock may find comfort "in the masochistic pleasures of this trippy and ultimately touching novel.

[15] Bourré said that as the book progresses, Mastai's "metaphors or insights [become] more sophisticated than the chatty tone in which the novel is narrated", but felt it would have been better to have them start at the beginning.

"[15] All Our Wrong Todays was published in February 2017, and a month later, Paramount Pictures and Amy Pascal secured the screen rights to the book for $1.25 million.

[4] Mastai signed a contract with Paramount to write the screenplay for a potential film,[8] and he submitted a draft before the book tour began in March 2017.

[16] In January 2021, Peacock announced that Seth MacFarlane and Pascal will produce an adaptation of All Our Wrong Todays for a TV series.