The Day of the Boomer Dukes

A restless time traveler consults a learning-lodge index to pinpoint a past age promising adventure, then undertakes meticulous preparations and transmits himself into a cold, decayed city. He copes with unfamiliar smells and weather, seeks out a colorful band of desperadoes to join, and navigates miscommunications and cultural mismatches. The narrative follows his bemused, observational first-person perspective as comedic and catastrophic collisions between different social orders develop, combining satirical social commentary with episodic scenes of travel, recruitment, and the challenges of imposing modern expectations on an alien past.