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El cosplayer steampunk extremo, Aristóteles, es un investigador privado temporal cuyas tareas habituales suelen ser investigar a los cónyuges infieles viajando al pasado para pillarlos en flagrante delito. Un trabajo sucio, pero alguien tiene que hacerlo.
Está en la Biblioteca Británica, investigando información de fondo para un nuevo caso, cuando el texto y las imágenes de la página que está leyendo desaparecen ante sus ojos. Resulta que los miembros del Proyecto Clockwise, el equipo que descubrió el viaje en el tiempo, están siendo misteriosamente borrados de la existencia.
Si el viaje en el tiempo nunca se descubre, el trabajo de Aristóteles también dejará de existir. Sólo hay una cosa que puede hacer: viajar más atrás en el tiempo de lo que nunca ha estado, averiguar quién es el responsable de la desaparición de la línea temporal y detenerlo.
Ari couldn’t spend his life travelling through time checking up on Dr Spencer’s family tree so he decided to focus on the doctor’s parents. It would involve less time travel, plus he didn’t even know if he could travel back far enough to make a difference. He knew the authorised limits of his TPI licence but had no idea if travelling further back than a year was possible.
Doctor Spencer had been fifty-one years old and was born on 15 January 2022. That meant he must have been conceived nine months earlier, in May 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ari wasn’t worried about the risk of infection, having had his vaccinations against COVID, a one-shot immunisation that covered COVIDs -19, -32, -47 and the most recent strain, COVID -64 but he’d still take a mask with him so that he wouldn’t stand out.
He needed more information. Normally, he’d ask Tom for help but it was obvious that that was out of the question. Tom would try to dissuade him from his quest. He might even obtain a Temporal Injunction against Ari, who was licensed to travel into the past to observe and record only.
He looked at his cell phone menu page. Just as Tom had said, there was a web browser. He felt torn. He’d fought all his life against using the technology of the day – especially digital technology – but to go to the British Library and search for the information he needed would take up too much valuable time. He gritted his teeth and pressed the Google icon. A web browser opened up immediately.
He frowned. The browser was open but there was a message stating that he wasn’t connected to a network. He returned to the phone’s homepage and scoured the icons for something that might help him, settling on an icon that simply said connect. He clicked on the icon and opened the browser again; this time it showed a search page.
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Author review: Lia was extremely efficient and completed the translation promptly. I don't speak Spanish but I DO speak Portuguese so I was able to more or less understand the translation and it seemed good to me! I would certainly trust her to translate my other books into Spanish. |
