Conrad's time machine : a prequel to the adventures of Conrad Stargard

Just out of the Air Force, Tom Kolczyskrenski and two old friends hit the road on their motorcycles, but their plans change when they stumble upon a mysterious machine that takes the three of them on a bizarre odyssey through time. Conrad's Time Machine 1 by Leo A. Frankowski 1 Dedication 3 Acknowledgements 3 Baen Books by Leo Frankowski 4 Forward 5 CHAPTER I 6 6 Sad Leavings 6 CHAPTER TWO 11 11 An Old Friend 11 CHAPTER THREE 15 15 The Other Friend 15 CHAPTER FOUR 20 20 An Explosion in Time 20 CHAPTER FIVE 26 26 The Venture 26 CHAPTER SIX 31 31 The Partnership 31 CHAPTER SEVEN 35 35 Girlfriends and Grandfathers 35 CHAPTER EIGHT 39 39 Cosmology 39 CHAPTER NINE 43 43 Autum Leaves and Temporal Swords 43 CHAPTER TEN 48 48 Lateral Displacement and Practical Jokes 48 CHAPTER ELEVEN 53 53 Robbing a Bank 53 CHAPTER TWELVE 57 57 Rich Again 57 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 60 60 Hasenpfeffer's Place 60 CHAPTER FOURTEEN 65 65 Arizona by the Sea 65 CHAPTER FIFTEEN 70 70 My Princess in My Palace 70 CHAPTER SIXTEEN 75 75 A Surfeit of Ladies 75 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 79 79 Rebellion 79 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 85 85 The Uses of Time 85 CHAPTER NINETEEN 91 91 Gunboats and Yatchs 91 CHAPTER TWENTY 96 96 Two New Bodies 96 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 101 101 Another Race and a Party 101 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 108 108 The Third Wager 108 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 114 114 Playboys in the Sun 114 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 119 119 Amoebas and Our Factory 119 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 126 126 Ve Vas Only Filling Orders 126 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 130 130 Baboons and the Ladies 130 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 133 133 The Loss of a Friend 133 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 137 137 Womaning the Factory 137 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 143 143 Different Kinds of Power 143 CHAPTER THIRTY 149 149 The Second Law 149 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE 155 155 I'm Getting Married! 155 CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO 160 160 You Still Have to Start at the Beginning 160 CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE 165 165 Barbara's Family 165 CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR 170 170 The First Expedition 170 CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE 175 175 Big Trouble 175 CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX 180 180 Sabotage? 180 CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN 185 185 Wedding Preparations 185 CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT 191 191 Kidnaped! 191 CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE 196 196 A Bachelor Party from Hell 196 CHAPTER FORTY 199 199 The Wedding 199 CHAPTER FORTY-ONE 204 204 The Second Expedition 204 CHAPTER FORTY-TWO 209 209 Building a Small City 209 CHAPTER FORTY-THREE 214 214 Barbara's Tunneling Machine 214 CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR 219 219 Visitors 219 CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE 223 223 Telling Lies 223 CHAPTER FORTY-SIX 229 229 The Appearence of the Teacher 229 CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN 234 234 The Departure of the Smoothies 234 CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT 240 240 A Talk With Hasenpfeffer 240 A gang of motorcyclists find a perfectly strange hemispherical hole in the ground where a house had been--then they find the pieces of the machine that put it there. When they turn the machine on, the world will never be the same