The Lamp Post Motel

Fiction. Joe Gold's first novel considers this question: Are UFOs graduate students of the future researching their past? Most people come to the Lamp Post Motel to hide out, shack up and party down. Some find it a cheap getaway from Tucson's merciless summer heat. And a few tattered souls are there because they've stumbled and there's nowhere else to fall. Elmo Skinner was one of those prople. He was a loner who lost everything, but gained the Lamp Post Motel from the ashes. He turned it into an automation project, and added hidden cameras to keep a little too close an eye on his clientele. From 2000 years in the future and Saturn's University of the Rings come a couple of graduate students who use the Lamp Post Motel for sexual anthropology field research. They sneak back through a hole in time, then send Elmo mind-hopping on the ride of his life. Joe Gold is a journalist, technology marketer, and content writer in San Francisco, and a longstanding member of the National Writers Union.