Author: Erik E. Hanberg

Erik E. Hanberg writes American novels and nonfiction from Tacoma, Washington, where his civic and public-media work has accompanied a varied publishing career. The Iron Harvest is the second volume of his Lattice Trilogy, following The Lead Cloak and preceding The Tin Whistle. Published in 2016, it returns to a future transformed by the collapse of the Lattice, a technological network that had supported communication, weather control, and everyday systems. Byron Shaw faces the political and practical consequences of that failure as competing groups struggle over what should replace it. Hanberg’s official series account and independent bibliography agree on the novel’s place, date, and speculative setting. The Iron Harvest expands a problem introduced in the first volume rather than resetting the story, giving decisions about technology lasting social effects. Across the trilogy, Hanberg uses speculative systems to explore governance, trust, and the tension between collective security and individual control.