Phil Abrams did not plan to spend his first real date in years dodging alien death beams.
He's an anxious ex-sock-entrepreneur who just wants to show up at a coffee shop in his brave astronaut pug socks and impress Lucy-the sharp, soft-hearted stranger who laughed at his jokes in Aisle 5.
Instead, crescent ships slice open the sky. Drones begin erasing pieces of Manhattan. And a chirpy, not-quite-human voice appears in Phil's head, informing him that he's been "selected" for something it calls a valuable learning opportunity.
The offer sounds a lot like power: the ability to change what's happening. The fine print is... unclear. And the more Phil uses whatever this is, the messier reality gets-and the more it seems like his choices might cost him either the woman he's just starting to fall for, or the city he lives in.
Love and Other Temporal Catastrophes is a funny, heartfelt sci-fi romcom about anxiety, cosmic tech support, and what it really means to show up when the future is glitching.