i woke up 600 years in future, made cake from past for colleagues but they died, now i need to run

What the story is about

Norton Cobblebottom wakes up 600 years in the future, where his old-fashioned birthday trifle causes a deadly reaction among his alien coworkers. With his colleague Zada, he flees the office and tries to make sense of a strange future where even familiar words and customs have changed.