Because I Was Paid
The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, volume 1)
By Leo Frankowski
1986’s The Cross-Time Engineer is the volume that launched Leo Frankowski’s increasingly dire Adventures of Conrad Stargard, a Morganade1 adventure series on a long-suffering world.
Hungover, Conrad Schwartz sets out on an ill-fated hike. One temporal mishap later and the American-trained Polish engineer found himself somewhere he only knew from text-books.
Or rather, somewhen.