Deadbeat Escapement (paperback)
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by John Ledbetter | ISBN 979-8-218-94602-9
Deadbeat Escapement (Vikon Village Books, February 2026) is a satirical nonfiction novel narrated through the erudite, playfully paranoid lens of a young Thomas Pynchon. Laced with irreverent 1960s slang, this dense, wildly funny genre-bending book blends meticulously researched history with audacious speculative fiction. It explores the newbie novelist’s dilemma: whether to expose the machine or be absorbed by it, while posing timely questions in our age of AI and disinformation.
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Fiction // Satire
420 pages
114 MB .epub file (eBook purchase)
Written with 100% Organic Intelligence (O.I.)
No trigger warnings
Published by Vikon Village Books