Lost in Translation

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David Neyland, Oct 9, 2025 - Young Adult Fiction - 250 pages

Illegal Alien, farting 'Lectric Bike, Non-Binary Teen Escaping - Yeah, Just Another Day at Roswell


A comedy romp wrapped in a not-now dystopia, a laugh-out-loud satire of today's mixed-up world. Two fugitive teens — seventeen-year-old human, Avery Reyes, and Xeep, the strange, injured interstellar teen who stole a ship on a dare. Avery wants to escape being shipped off by Pa to the Royal Rehabilitation Academy to be "fixed." When a mysterious craft is shot from the sky by Pa's Golden Dome missiles, all Avery wants is to steal some tech and run to Pacifica. Yet Avery can't leave Xeep behind.


Pursued by drones and diesel-belching goons, and haunted by echoes of the past, the two fugitives race across the desert on a cobbled-together, perpetually farting 'lectric bike — bargaining with impeccably mannered rattlesnakes, weathering the alien's terror of butterflies and water, and the human's terror of surviving every mortifying indignity of growing up.


Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Neal Shusterman, and Adam Silvera, Lost in Translation is a story for anyone who has ever felt out of place in their own world.

 

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE We Didnt Start the Fire
CHAPTER FOUR A Horse with No Name
CHAPTER SIX Dont Fear The Reaper
CHAPTER EIGHT Bridge over Troubled Water
CHAPTER ELEVEN Stayin Alive
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Born to be Wild
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Paparazzi
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Mrs Robinson
CHAPTER NINETEEN Beautiful Life
CHAPTER TWENTY Somebodys Watching
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO Im Alive
CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE We Are Never Ever Getting Back
CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN Firework
XEEPS PLAYLIST
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About the author (2025)

Neyland was born in Iceland and loves to travel. Some of his best friends were dachshunds, better known as wiener dogs - the original badger hounds.