Autobiography of a Failed Time Traveler

You’ve probably never wondered how a time traveler eats. Neither did Bradley, until he stranded himself 45 years in the past—much further than the one week he had expected.

Bradley, a geeky engineer who enjoys figuring out how things work, sets off in his home-brew time machine purely in pursuit of personal profit. Now that he’s stuck much farther back in time than the one week he planned, broke and unprepared in 1970s Los Angeles, Bradley must work a regular day job while he figures out how to exploit his knowledge of the future to get rich.

By chance (or is it?), he meets Lily in a Santa Monica antique shop. She has time traveled from the late-19th century and is driven to improve the world and its people; Bradley's goal is to make Jeff Bezos look like a pauper by acquiring obscene wealth. Gambling on his knowledge of future events puts Bradley in grave danger, and he needs to travel further in time for Lily's help.