Talk:Lost Track of Time (novella)

Plot

Ian Grada (born in 2005), after working with Harold Meltzner on developing their own personal working time machine, go to Hazdon Industries to offer it's tech to them. Hazdon wants it but only to sell to the Military for evil usage (perhaps it can actually break the closed-loop?) He manages to escape Hazdon after they attempt to hold him hostage and travels back to 1990 New Prairie, where he buries the device. I had it be that he wiped his memories (somehow, not sure), left himself a few clues in case he ever needed to find the time machine, and proceeded to live a "normal" life in the past. He eventually meets David Ricci while working at the local architecture firm and the two become friends.

In 1995, a future group of individuals working for Hazdon travel back in time (again, no clue how that happens) in an attempt to seek out Ian and his time machine. They come after Ian, with David "getting in the way" but not wanting to leave his friend as these individuals chase after them, and the whole things turns into a race against time to remember where the time machine is buried before the Hazdon people find it. The confrontation comes to a head when the Hazdon people shoot and kill Ian just as they find the machine. David, not knowing how it works, manages to travel back to the last known travel date included on the device (1990) and misses being killed by the Hazdon people.

He arrives in 1990 just after Ian does and now with the new knowledge of the events that are going to happen, he explains everything to Ian and is the one who helped Ian bury the time machine, leave the clues, and wipe his memory. He also tells him before he leaves to wear a bullet proof vest and when David jumps back to 1995, Ian is alive and well after being shot because he remembered David's request. Randombell (talk) 11:01, 3 July 2026 (EDT)