Trash, Fay Away, Nihil, SPQR, Nat Star—Timejacker!, and Banjo: Timejack
2 Travel Journals Written in 2024 (Trash and Fay Away) including articles published on this site and on LaFond/Lockhart Substack, are bundled with four novels written while traveling:
This dystopian near future science-fiction novelette was written while traveling by train, crutch and cane in Emmeryville, Oakland and San Jose, California. The crippled protagonist is patterned on the author composited with a train conductor who aided him, the supporting characters on folks met along the way.
The perspective characters are based on hosts the author lived with while writing the novel as well as train passengers and conductors met along the way. The book is essentially a steampunk gladiator yarn. The print publisher has requested a sequel be written.
A Novel of Chronological Correction
This time travel yarn casts a sparring partner of the author as a timejacker gathered to a higher calling by two of the author's combat veteran drinking companions, who he has never met. The protagonist, Nat Star, is patterned on the 'Younger Self' of a man whose youth memoir the author wrote in 2018.
A Novel of Chronological Correction
The third of the Timejacker Trilogy casts another sparring partner of the author as a hero faced with a series of moral dilemmas taken from the author's own life. The supporting characters combine historical figures from the author's research and fellow travelers from Baltimore, Maryland and Grand Junction, Colorado.
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