The Man Who Stole Tomorrow

<p><strong>A lost manuscript. A legendary author. A future he was never meant to witness.</strong></p><p>When <strong>Keith White</strong> Director of Rare Books at the New York Public Library discovers an impossible 1890 edition of <em>The Time Machine</em> he realizes it contains something extraordinary: <strong>a firsthand account written by H.G. Wells himself</strong> chronicling a secret trip into the future five years before the official novel was ever published.</p><p>Inside the hidden text Wells describes activating his experimental machine and arriving in <strong>2025</strong> only to find a world collapsing under its own weight. Chicago and London are nearly unrecognizable filled with homelessness crime addiction organ theft technology beyond imagination and societal decay. What begins as a bold scientific experiment becomes a harrowing struggle to survive.</p><p>Along the way Wells encounters desperate families living under bridges violent thieves an unexpected friend who alters history and a society so advanced yet morally unmoored that it shakes him to his core.</p><p>Stranded more than a century from home and injured in ways he never anticipated Wells must uncover the final truth: <strong>Can he return to his own time and if so at what cost to history?</strong></p><p>Back in the present Keith becomes obsessed with proving the manuscript's authenticity especially after discovering a cryptic inscription addressed directly to H.G. Wells.</p><p><strong>Blending time-travel adventure historical fiction social commentary and literary mystery <em>The Man Who Stole Tomorrow</em> reimagines the legacy of a science-fiction pioneer through the story he never told.</strong></p><p>A gripping emotionally resonant journey across time and what it truly means to change it.</p>