Ellis Wyle

People do heroic things all the time.Ellis Wyle seems to think that buying a timeport ticket and traveling back to the day his ex-girlfriend broke up with him, even though she is fundamentally against temporal manipulation, is a heroic thing.Set in an idyllic corrected history, this text recounts Ellis's scrambling efforts to attain contentedness by using the commercialized time travel industry. With the moral and financial support of his best friend Tom-who is also the twenty-two-year-old, leather-clad, '70s rock-loving, motorcycle-propelled version of his grandfather-Ellis embarks on a blindfolded and counterintuitive journey of healing, including a trip to the 1950s where the girls are rumored to be "easy for future fellas," and an intricate plan to alter his own history so that he never meets Jess: the insatiable ex-girlfriend who started it all.In a world that has strategically avoided war, sickness, and all premature deaths (for the flat rate of $1000 per temporal send!), the only variable malady left for humankind is the understanding of love, and the inherent challenges within.