The Nostalgia Gene

Edgar Evans is a young man who feels perpetually out of step with the world around him. Raised by a genteel grandmother who clings to the manners of a bygone era, he charms the older ladies but confounds his peers with old‑fashioned speech and a taste for classical music. In an age of bop slang and electric buzz, Edgar’s longing for “the good old days” leaves him isolated at work and in his social life.

Now employed as a technician in an electronics laboratory, he becomes fascinated by a top‑secret project and begins to wonder whether time itself can be bent. Obsessed with the idea that consciousness moves through a series of moments, he devotes every spare hour to reading every theory he can find and sketching circuits that might let him step beyond the present. As his experiments intensify, Edgar’s nostalgia transforms from wistful memory into a concrete, daring pursuit of a machine that could change the flow of his own life.