The Renegade Bodie Nine

Eric Lard

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Miscellaneous
19 September 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Westerns; Space opera; Science Fiction

Series: Chronicles of Bodie Nine

Between outlaws stealing children for the coldbright mines and otherworldly creatures, frontier life on the plains of the Alta Estranyazie isn't for the faint of heart.

When Bodie Nine, a meandering robot with no directive, is befriended by a family, his missing code gets overwritten: Their only child, Justine, has been kidnapped, and Bodie's new directive is to save her from a life of misery at the bottom of a deep, dark hole in the earth. Obsessed with karma and wielding a twitchy trigger finger, Bodie scours the frontier to find her.

However, Bodie gets more than he bargained for between Blackie Lung's desperados and the mysterious sharpshooter, Klamath Pettibone. When Justine herself transforms into as much of a monster as anything haunting the barren, saguaro-filled wastes, he realizes there's a whole lot more going on than just a bunch of yahoos trying to make a few ill-gotten pesos.

Fortunately, there may be more to Bodie Nine than just circuits and six guns.

By: Eric Lard
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9798823207874
Series: Chronicles of Bodie Nine
Pages: 394
Publication Date: 19 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Eric's base camp is at the foot of the oft-smoldering Sierra Nevada in NorCal where he enjoys surfing, snowboarding & mountain biking with his wife and three adult sons. You can check out excerpts for upcoming projects at his author page: enlard-author.weebly.com.On his nightstand; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Martian by Andy Weir, any one of the Muderbot Diaries books by Martha Wells or the Arcane Casebook series by Dan Willis. There's some Stephen King stuff too.