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Travesía al pasado
Los viajes en el tiempo son un imán muchas veces irresistible para los novelistas de la Ciencia Ficción y ni qué hablar para los guionistas de películas de Hollywood.En esta novela está llena de viajes en el tiempo dentro de un contexto de "Revisionismo Histórico", neutral y sin intervenciones. Y esos viajes tienen, por supuesto, limitaciones muy específicas que el amigo lector podrá conocer apenas comenzada la lectura.Desde ya que, de existir en realidad la posibilidad de trasladarse temporalmente a voluntad y estar libre de intervenir en el lugar de destino, el Universo se volvería algo ingobernable pero, piense por un momento… qué bueno sería, no? Volver y evitar tantas cosas o provocar otras…En esta aventura hacia el pasado podrá conocer lo que pasa cuando queremos cambiar el mismo sin medir las consecuencias... hacia el futuro.
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Published January 9, 2021
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Esteban Corio
17 books24 followersEsteban Corio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an avid reader of astronomy, physics, fiction, and science fiction texts. His favorite authors are Carl Sagan, Kip Thorne, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Clive Cussler, and James Byron Huggins, among many others.
In his first novel, Mars the Mother Country, published in 2020, he proposes a funny adventure of a young archaeologist who conjures up an alien invasion of Earth.
In Journey to the Past, his second novel published in January 2021, he takes us through multiple journeys in time with revisionist purposes, until something goes wrong and the hero of the day must fix things.
Besides writing, his other pastimes are trail running and playing guitar.
In his first novel, Mars the Mother Country, published in 2020, he proposes a funny adventure of a young archaeologist who conjures up an alien invasion of Earth.
In Journey to the Past, his second novel published in January 2021, he takes us through multiple journeys in time with revisionist purposes, until something goes wrong and the hero of the day must fix things.
Besides writing, his other pastimes are trail running and playing guitar.
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January 21, 2025
Libro: Travesía al pasado
Autor: Esteban Corio
3.5 ⭐
Opinión:
Estaba muy entusiasmada con leer este libro, principalmente porque me encantan las historias que involucren los viajes al pasado es algo que me fascina.
El autor se toma su tiempo para explicar cómo funcionan estos Viajes y las reglas que tiene impuestas, tengo que decir que me gustó mucho el recorte hace del escenario. Son muchas las posibilidades de como puede abordarse el tema y la manera en la cual se toma en este libro no la había leído antes y me gustó mucho, sobre todo por su relación con los hechos historicos.
La humanidad se encuentra en el año 2052, un momento donde viajes en el tiempo son posibles, pero se encuentran muy bien regulados y solo es posible realizarlos bajo ciertas condiciones y se debe pasar por un rugoroso proceso antes de aprobarse. Además de que para poder realizarlos se cuenta con trajes especializados para evitar ser detectados cuando se realizaron las incursiones.
1) Ningún viaje póster al año 1950
2) Ninguna interacción con nadie ni nada
3) Duración máxima de 12 horas en destinó
4) Ninguna visita a acontecimientos militares, bélicos o sediciosos
5) Un máximo de 4 viajeros por cada misión
Estas son sus cuatro reglas principales y todo gira en en torno a que pasa cuando se rompen, y se abre la posiblidad entre otras cosas de crear líneas alternativas
En el libro se llevan a cabo diferentes Viajes, algunos programados y estudiados de acuerdo a los protocolos establecidos, y otro ilegales llevados a cabo por personajes que intentan sacar provecho por diferentes motivos, en ambos casos ocurren sorpresas y tiene su giro inesperado, y esto es algo que siempre tienen los libros de Esteban, en la historia de por si sucede en un escenario fantástico lleno de posiblidades y aún así encuentran la manera de mejorar y sorprender al lector agregando otros enigmas y cuestionamientos a resolver, un misterio infinito.
Al menos en mí caso, se presenta la misma interrogante durante todo el libro ¿pasaría si?
Autor: Esteban Corio
3.5 ⭐
Opinión:
Estaba muy entusiasmada con leer este libro, principalmente porque me encantan las historias que involucren los viajes al pasado es algo que me fascina.
El autor se toma su tiempo para explicar cómo funcionan estos Viajes y las reglas que tiene impuestas, tengo que decir que me gustó mucho el recorte hace del escenario. Son muchas las posibilidades de como puede abordarse el tema y la manera en la cual se toma en este libro no la había leído antes y me gustó mucho, sobre todo por su relación con los hechos historicos.
La humanidad se encuentra en el año 2052, un momento donde viajes en el tiempo son posibles, pero se encuentran muy bien regulados y solo es posible realizarlos bajo ciertas condiciones y se debe pasar por un rugoroso proceso antes de aprobarse. Además de que para poder realizarlos se cuenta con trajes especializados para evitar ser detectados cuando se realizaron las incursiones.
1) Ningún viaje póster al año 1950
2) Ninguna interacción con nadie ni nada
3) Duración máxima de 12 horas en destinó
4) Ninguna visita a acontecimientos militares, bélicos o sediciosos
5) Un máximo de 4 viajeros por cada misión
Estas son sus cuatro reglas principales y todo gira en en torno a que pasa cuando se rompen, y se abre la posiblidad entre otras cosas de crear líneas alternativas
En el libro se llevan a cabo diferentes Viajes, algunos programados y estudiados de acuerdo a los protocolos establecidos, y otro ilegales llevados a cabo por personajes que intentan sacar provecho por diferentes motivos, en ambos casos ocurren sorpresas y tiene su giro inesperado, y esto es algo que siempre tienen los libros de Esteban, en la historia de por si sucede en un escenario fantástico lleno de posiblidades y aún así encuentran la manera de mejorar y sorprender al lector agregando otros enigmas y cuestionamientos a resolver, un misterio infinito.
Al menos en mí caso, se presenta la misma interrogante durante todo el libro ¿pasaría si?
January 15, 2023
Okay, where to start ... alright, so first off the bat I give massive cred and hats-off to Corio, who I believe is Argentinian and either wrote this book in Spanish and then translated it, or wrote it in English as a second language. There's some fantastic idioms and some other little slips, but I make full allowance and am not docking marks for the book needing a good hard editing (well, not just for that). This is a common thing with indie books. There was some confusion between he / his, she / her and they / their, which I take to be a result of Spanish pronoun grammar, that made it difficult to tell sometimes who was being talked about in a given paragraph. It was challenging, but you know what else is challenging? Writing in your non-native tongue.
I loved the intro, the hopeful future of the late 21st Century. Pretty stuff, I unironically love a good info dump, and the new union of human and alien races, although very under-utilised here, was great. I was mildly amused to find in an early chapter of the book that the perfect future world still had health insurance and not free universal healthcare, but I guess nobody's perfect.
So, with the advent of faster-than-light travel humanity also learned how to travel in time. Doing so, into the past, could not affect the "Mother Timeline" because every change just made new variants of the universe and the universe of origin remained unaffected, but they were still reasonably careful not to spin off too many alternative realities - or travel into the future at all. Which, okay, would that not be a better way to make profit in secret if you're going to break the rules anyway? But fine. That's not really covered.
Research, however, into the past is permitted under very controlled circumstances. The not too recent past, and they still have to go in essentially invisible despite the apparent inviolability of the Mother Timeline, and enter and leave within a few hours carrying nothing ... but that's how it works. Companies, like the one our set of protagonists work for, sort of shoot people pot-luck into the past for a few hours at a time to see what they can see. It's an interesting premise.
Enter Edgar (director of operations) and Mark (deputy director), two absolute units who get in approximately one million dollars' worth of trouble (one million and fifty-six thousand dollars, to be exact) with a mob boss named Biao. Now, keep in mind that keeping a time portal open costs their company one million dollars a minute in energy fees. And this company is set to make staggering profits. This gambling debt is pocket change, even taking into account that there might be regulations preventing them from misappropriating too much of the company's funds directly (stupid hyper-regulated future!).
Still, they offer Biao their houses, but Biao doesn't dabble in real estate. Which, why? Clearly everyone involved here is an idiot. But okay. They owe this nasty piece of work a modest amount of money, and they desperately scramble to find a way to use their company's time travel mechanic to make it for him. It's actually rather clever, although maybe not as clever as just, you know, embezzling the money. We'll get to the idea, hold on.
Meanwhile, the legit side of the company is doing time jumps. Small teams including a doctor and a fixer, go into the past and check things out and then come back with data. The company has two fixers, from what I could see - Randy and Sprague, the former a bit of a loose cannon and the latter our main protagonist, a private investigator down on his luck who is happy to be picked up by this company that will pay him super, super well (remember the directors of the company are one million dollars in the red to a mob guy).
There are also some other characters in the story, and we are treated to some absolutely amazing descriptions of them.
Anyway, moving on. They go back in time to see Pumapunku being built, and accidentally totally find out it was being built as a resort by some Ancient Aliens. Yup, that happened. Now, on the other hand they also go to see Columbus making landfall on America, and one of the travellers attempts to assassinate him. Not because it will have any impact on the Mother Timeline, but just to create some spin-off universes in which the Native American people have a chance to exist free of mass-rape and genocide. Anyway that guy turns out to be a terrorist and a bad guy so never mind.
Maybe it's innocent. Look, I loved the idea of aliens coming to Earth and having a hand in ancient civilisations when I was younger (and, you know, dumb and ignorant). I still write about it myself - it's just that you also need to be aware of the huge risk that in saying "and aliens came and helped build this amazing thing" what you're actually kinda saying is "brown savages couldn't possibly have had the skill and tenacity to do this themselves." So you need to be careful.
I boldly read on, batting aside red flags as I went. Then Randy, our not-quite-protagonist fixer, decided to stay in 1994, where there is no environmentalist preaching, no constant electronic pamphlets about the "social conscience required of citizens", no policies of equitable distribution of wealth, and also you're allowed to smoke.
And, it's just, okay. I'm not going to punish a book and its author because we differ ideologically. That's not what this is about. This could have been a fascinating study of these issues, and could have ended with a masterpiece of sci-fi iconoclastry like Demolition Man. I'm just saying, if there's a guy who doesn't like anything about the progressive future he lives in, maybe put a little mark in his folder about it before you make him a fixer on time travel missions back to the early days of proto-political correctness and rampant pollutant consumerism? You know, just a little - a little asterisk?
Anyway, all that stuff I just mentioned, aside from Randy, that's all somehow a side-point to the main plot. The Randy thing brings us back around to the actual body of the story, which is all about using time travel to fiddle with World Cup soccer matches in order to have one million dollars of gambling debts forgiven.
And like I said, it was actually a pretty damn cool idea!
So, like I mentioned, Edgar and Mark send Randy to 1994. This is against the rules for near-present proximity, but whatever. They're off the legal map from here on out. Randy's mission is to tamper with the first game of the World Cup, then hang around and record how the contest played out as a result. Then he comes back with the recordings, and the high fliers back in the 2050s watch the new variant of the World Cup play out, and bet on it. It's pretty interesting, and although some interference has occurred, the Mother Timeline is inviolable so all that's really happened is that Randy is a month or so older than he was when he went into the portal, and a new version of the universe has spun into existence where Bolivia beat Germany in the first match of the 1994 World Cup (and also Randy did just an absolute fucking ton of other things that would alter that universe ... I'm just saying, this is kind of important for later).
There are a few problems with this plan, of course. I don't know how easy it would have been for someone to get accommodation in Chicago during the first time the soccer World Cup came to the US, with three days' notice. I think it would have been very very difficult indeed. Furthermore, they send him back there with some jewellery to pawn, but they don't have the tech to just provide him with a card that will tweak the bank machines and give him money? Yeesh. Even furthermore, they expect Randy to be able to record the games as they're broadcast? Using '90s technology? People in the '90s couldn't even do that!
Randy didn't need to figure out the VHS recorder though, because he just bought a DVD recorder instead. Half a decade before they were commercially available.
So. Randy enjoys his little World Cup trip so much, he decides to win the lottery using Powerball numbers he brought with him for the purpose, and cut and run with his winnings. This is where Edgar and Mark start to realise their whole plan was a fucking dog's breakfast from start to finish, and send Sprague, our hero, to fix things. And this is where it all finally and ultimately falls to pieces.
Sprague, to cut a long story slightly less-long, puts himself in cryo-suspension in 1994 and returns to the 2050s the long way 'round, with a clever plan of his own. Somehow, this is portrayed as his return to the Mother Timeline, and its preservation. But that is not possible.
He is already in an alternate universe. He's in cryo-suspension and headed into the 2050s of an Earth where Bolivia beat Germany in the first match of the 1994 World Cup - and also, like I said was going to be important later, Randy took half the Powerball winnings that season and bought himself a private beach and had jacuzzi threesomes with '90s babes. Randy is not getting back to the Mother Timeline any way but through the portals sent by his corporate bosses. There's no way. I don't make the rules. The author makes the rules. And this is against the rules.
You can make a case for self-correction and return to the Mother Timeline if you like. The champion of the World Cup that year ultimately did not change. And if Columbus was killed, another genocidal rapist would have arrived shortly thereafter.
Maybe that's the lesson here.
We end in a flurry of Futurama cryo-facility shenanigans and Back to the Future plotting that might have worked better if the narrator had framed time travel as a fucking free-for-all in the first place, and holy shit this review turned out to be really long, let's move on to the meters. Quick.
Sex-o-meter
Biao's psychotic idiot of a son "crossed" with two women, which I'm pretty sure means he beat and raped them. Sprague and Eva watch vintage movies and have sex, their relationship is generally wholesome and sweet. And there's some sleazy '90s jacuzzi action. Not a hugely sex-filled romp. A limp, meek, non-smoking environmentalist little 2050s boner out of a possible huge, throbbing, oiled-bicep-like boner of the 1990s.
Gore-o-meter
There's something of a spree-ending here and some satisfying fights. I also like to think that, after Biao is ruined and after he gets over his grief, he goes to find that friend of Sprague's who very foolishly allowed his company's details to be put on the "fake video" Sprague used to ruin Biao, and just systematically slaughters his entire family and all his friends. But that only happened in my mind, not in the book. One gobbet out of a possible five.
WTF-o-meter
So much WTF. So, so much. Why wasn't this book about the aliens who were building a resort at Pumapunku? That would have been amazing (if, I cannot stress this enough, handled correctly). I'll restrict myself to that single important question, and give this book a Crystal Skull out of a possible Jesus Was Actually Bigfoot on the WTF-o-meter.
My Final Verdict
Oof. One star.
I loved the intro, the hopeful future of the late 21st Century. Pretty stuff, I unironically love a good info dump, and the new union of human and alien races, although very under-utilised here, was great. I was mildly amused to find in an early chapter of the book that the perfect future world still had health insurance and not free universal healthcare, but I guess nobody's perfect.
So, with the advent of faster-than-light travel humanity also learned how to travel in time. Doing so, into the past, could not affect the "Mother Timeline" because every change just made new variants of the universe and the universe of origin remained unaffected, but they were still reasonably careful not to spin off too many alternative realities - or travel into the future at all. Which, okay, would that not be a better way to make profit in secret if you're going to break the rules anyway? But fine. That's not really covered.
Research, however, into the past is permitted under very controlled circumstances. The not too recent past, and they still have to go in essentially invisible despite the apparent inviolability of the Mother Timeline, and enter and leave within a few hours carrying nothing ... but that's how it works. Companies, like the one our set of protagonists work for, sort of shoot people pot-luck into the past for a few hours at a time to see what they can see. It's an interesting premise.
Enter Edgar (director of operations) and Mark (deputy director), two absolute units who get in approximately one million dollars' worth of trouble (one million and fifty-six thousand dollars, to be exact) with a mob boss named Biao. Now, keep in mind that keeping a time portal open costs their company one million dollars a minute in energy fees. And this company is set to make staggering profits. This gambling debt is pocket change, even taking into account that there might be regulations preventing them from misappropriating too much of the company's funds directly (stupid hyper-regulated future!).
Still, they offer Biao their houses, but Biao doesn't dabble in real estate. Which, why? Clearly everyone involved here is an idiot. But okay. They owe this nasty piece of work a modest amount of money, and they desperately scramble to find a way to use their company's time travel mechanic to make it for him. It's actually rather clever, although maybe not as clever as just, you know, embezzling the money. We'll get to the idea, hold on.
Meanwhile, the legit side of the company is doing time jumps. Small teams including a doctor and a fixer, go into the past and check things out and then come back with data. The company has two fixers, from what I could see - Randy and Sprague, the former a bit of a loose cannon and the latter our main protagonist, a private investigator down on his luck who is happy to be picked up by this company that will pay him super, super well (remember the directors of the company are one million dollars in the red to a mob guy).
There are also some other characters in the story, and we are treated to some absolutely amazing descriptions of them.
Anyway, moving on. They go back in time to see Pumapunku being built, and accidentally totally find out it was being built as a resort by some Ancient Aliens. Yup, that happened. Now, on the other hand they also go to see Columbus making landfall on America, and one of the travellers attempts to assassinate him. Not because it will have any impact on the Mother Timeline, but just to create some spin-off universes in which the Native American people have a chance to exist free of mass-rape and genocide. Anyway that guy turns out to be a terrorist and a bad guy so never mind.
Maybe it's innocent. Look, I loved the idea of aliens coming to Earth and having a hand in ancient civilisations when I was younger (and, you know, dumb and ignorant). I still write about it myself - it's just that you also need to be aware of the huge risk that in saying "and aliens came and helped build this amazing thing" what you're actually kinda saying is "brown savages couldn't possibly have had the skill and tenacity to do this themselves." So you need to be careful.
I boldly read on, batting aside red flags as I went. Then Randy, our not-quite-protagonist fixer, decided to stay in 1994, where there is no environmentalist preaching, no constant electronic pamphlets about the "social conscience required of citizens", no policies of equitable distribution of wealth, and also you're allowed to smoke.
And, it's just, okay. I'm not going to punish a book and its author because we differ ideologically. That's not what this is about. This could have been a fascinating study of these issues, and could have ended with a masterpiece of sci-fi iconoclastry like Demolition Man. I'm just saying, if there's a guy who doesn't like anything about the progressive future he lives in, maybe put a little mark in his folder about it before you make him a fixer on time travel missions back to the early days of proto-political correctness and rampant pollutant consumerism? You know, just a little - a little asterisk?
Anyway, all that stuff I just mentioned, aside from Randy, that's all somehow a side-point to the main plot. The Randy thing brings us back around to the actual body of the story, which is all about using time travel to fiddle with World Cup soccer matches in order to have one million dollars of gambling debts forgiven.
And like I said, it was actually a pretty damn cool idea!
So, like I mentioned, Edgar and Mark send Randy to 1994. This is against the rules for near-present proximity, but whatever. They're off the legal map from here on out. Randy's mission is to tamper with the first game of the World Cup, then hang around and record how the contest played out as a result. Then he comes back with the recordings, and the high fliers back in the 2050s watch the new variant of the World Cup play out, and bet on it. It's pretty interesting, and although some interference has occurred, the Mother Timeline is inviolable so all that's really happened is that Randy is a month or so older than he was when he went into the portal, and a new version of the universe has spun into existence where Bolivia beat Germany in the first match of the 1994 World Cup (and also Randy did just an absolute fucking ton of other things that would alter that universe ... I'm just saying, this is kind of important for later).
There are a few problems with this plan, of course. I don't know how easy it would have been for someone to get accommodation in Chicago during the first time the soccer World Cup came to the US, with three days' notice. I think it would have been very very difficult indeed. Furthermore, they send him back there with some jewellery to pawn, but they don't have the tech to just provide him with a card that will tweak the bank machines and give him money? Yeesh. Even furthermore, they expect Randy to be able to record the games as they're broadcast? Using '90s technology? People in the '90s couldn't even do that!
Randy didn't need to figure out the VHS recorder though, because he just bought a DVD recorder instead. Half a decade before they were commercially available.
So. Randy enjoys his little World Cup trip so much, he decides to win the lottery using Powerball numbers he brought with him for the purpose, and cut and run with his winnings. This is where Edgar and Mark start to realise their whole plan was a fucking dog's breakfast from start to finish, and send Sprague, our hero, to fix things. And this is where it all finally and ultimately falls to pieces.
Sprague, to cut a long story slightly less-long, puts himself in cryo-suspension in 1994 and returns to the 2050s the long way 'round, with a clever plan of his own. Somehow, this is portrayed as his return to the Mother Timeline, and its preservation. But that is not possible.
He is already in an alternate universe. He's in cryo-suspension and headed into the 2050s of an Earth where Bolivia beat Germany in the first match of the 1994 World Cup - and also, like I said was going to be important later, Randy took half the Powerball winnings that season and bought himself a private beach and had jacuzzi threesomes with '90s babes. Randy is not getting back to the Mother Timeline any way but through the portals sent by his corporate bosses. There's no way. I don't make the rules. The author makes the rules. And this is against the rules.
You can make a case for self-correction and return to the Mother Timeline if you like. The champion of the World Cup that year ultimately did not change. And if Columbus was killed, another genocidal rapist would have arrived shortly thereafter.
Maybe that's the lesson here.
We end in a flurry of Futurama cryo-facility shenanigans and Back to the Future plotting that might have worked better if the narrator had framed time travel as a fucking free-for-all in the first place, and holy shit this review turned out to be really long, let's move on to the meters. Quick.
Sex-o-meter
Biao's psychotic idiot of a son "crossed" with two women, which I'm pretty sure means he beat and raped them. Sprague and Eva watch vintage movies and have sex, their relationship is generally wholesome and sweet. And there's some sleazy '90s jacuzzi action. Not a hugely sex-filled romp. A limp, meek, non-smoking environmentalist little 2050s boner out of a possible huge, throbbing, oiled-bicep-like boner of the 1990s.
Gore-o-meter
There's something of a spree-ending here and some satisfying fights. I also like to think that, after Biao is ruined and after he gets over his grief, he goes to find that friend of Sprague's who very foolishly allowed his company's details to be put on the "fake video" Sprague used to ruin Biao, and just systematically slaughters his entire family and all his friends. But that only happened in my mind, not in the book. One gobbet out of a possible five.
WTF-o-meter
So much WTF. So, so much. Why wasn't this book about the aliens who were building a resort at Pumapunku? That would have been amazing (if, I cannot stress this enough, handled correctly). I'll restrict myself to that single important question, and give this book a Crystal Skull out of a possible Jesus Was Actually Bigfoot on the WTF-o-meter.
My Final Verdict
Oof. One star.
November 18, 2022
Disclaimer - I received a free copy of this book to review for the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC).
This book was nearly impossible to read. Often the sentences made little sense due to incorrect word usage and confusing punctuation. If I had not agreed to review it I would have put it down after the first few chapters. I believe that the author, Esteban Corio, is Argentinian so, perhaps, the book was written in Spanish and the problem is in the poor translation into English.
As to the story itself, we have Aliens, Time Travel, Mafia Hitmen, Workplace Romance, UN Regulators, and Time Paradoxes. Corio’s story revolves around the idea of scientists of the year 2052 using time travel technology for the academic study of the past. He rushes through the pre-story of how Earth leaders met aliens, avoided an intergalactic war, and learned time travel technology in order to get to the his story of bad guys misusing the technology .
Time Travel stories are always a problem for me. In addition to the fact that they are scientifically improbable, the extent of the paradoxes involved are impossible to compute. Corio weaves several time paradoxes into the storyline and, even though he proposes some interesting ways to resolve them, it all comes across as unrealistic.
I do think that there are some interesting ideas in Journey to the Past. Unfortunately, much like dumping a large log on a few campfire embers, the author has tried to do too much, too fast and the flame died out.
This book was nearly impossible to read. Often the sentences made little sense due to incorrect word usage and confusing punctuation. If I had not agreed to review it I would have put it down after the first few chapters. I believe that the author, Esteban Corio, is Argentinian so, perhaps, the book was written in Spanish and the problem is in the poor translation into English.
As to the story itself, we have Aliens, Time Travel, Mafia Hitmen, Workplace Romance, UN Regulators, and Time Paradoxes. Corio’s story revolves around the idea of scientists of the year 2052 using time travel technology for the academic study of the past. He rushes through the pre-story of how Earth leaders met aliens, avoided an intergalactic war, and learned time travel technology in order to get to the his story of bad guys misusing the technology .
Time Travel stories are always a problem for me. In addition to the fact that they are scientifically improbable, the extent of the paradoxes involved are impossible to compute. Corio weaves several time paradoxes into the storyline and, even though he proposes some interesting ways to resolve them, it all comes across as unrealistic.
I do think that there are some interesting ideas in Journey to the Past. Unfortunately, much like dumping a large log on a few campfire embers, the author has tried to do too much, too fast and the flame died out.
March 12, 2021
Journey to the past is an interesting novel. Who doesn't love time travel? And let's face it - we all asked ourselves what could we do if we could go back in time. But not many are actually thinking of the consequences of changing the past.
The plot is engaging and well thought. And the characters are well developed and intriguing.
I liked the novel and I recommend it to sci-fi and time travel lovers.
Julie,
BooksShelf Reviewer
The plot is engaging and well thought. And the characters are well developed and intriguing.
I liked the novel and I recommend it to sci-fi and time travel lovers.
Julie,
BooksShelf Reviewer
August 23, 2023
Gracias al autor por la colaboración 😊. Y no está de más aclarar que esta opinión es 100% honesta y mía.
Este libro nos transporta al año 2052, con viajes en el tiempo logrados pero para ciertos objetivos, y eso está genial. Tenemos un preludio que nos explicita las reglas, como también qué ocurriría si los eventos del pasado cambiaran. Lo que interesa destacar, es que los viajes no pueden ser utilizados por cualquiera. La ONU tiene empresas particulares para que realicen estos viajes (para nosotros “Ucronia” será la empresa protagonista), y estos viajes se dan por diferentes proyectos presentados con índole investigativa. Sobre todo, para historiadores que quieran despejar dudas específicas que las fuentes no pueden aclarar, o bien, que no hay siquiera. Lo que sí, hay reglas, como por ejemplo no poder visitar los años más contemporáneos, o escenarios bélicos, criminales, etc. Escenarios que tengan espacio de violencia, con figuras que destaquen, y que puedan generar controversia para los viajantes. Esto es un muy buen punto, porque a pesar de que sea con carácter investigativo, nunca se sabe lo que podría pasar. De hecho, hay un ejemplo mega interesante que no voy a decirles porque sería spoiler.
Los trajes, el portal, el funcionamiento de la empresa como tal, y la tecnología para viajar al futuro, están presentes en el libro. Por lo tanto, tenemos detalle de cada cosita que veamos, y eso le da mucho realismo. Detalles en diálogos o viajes en donde podemos dar cuenta la cantidad de herramientas que están presentes.
Ahora bien, la trama como tal está dividida en dos, con diferentes protagonistas, pero que luego desembocan juntos. Por un lado, seguimos a Sprague, aquel que estará presente en los viajes al pasado (porque por regla deben ser cuatro en el viaje, contando con un médico), y es un protagonista que está preparado para cualquier eventualidad, lo cual lo hace perfecto para agregarlo a los proyectos de viaje. Por lo tanto, podremos ver con él cómo funcionan estos proyectos.
Por otro lado, Edgar y Mark, dos cabezas importantes dentro de “Ucronia”, deben una deuda millonaria a Biao, y el plan que tienen en mente conlleva viajar en el tiempo para manipular cierto evento, y así obtener rédito económico.
Ambas tramas son interesantes porque se dan a lo largo del libro, permitiendo conocer tanto el año en el que nos encontramos como lectores, como también el funcionamiento de los proyectos. Los protagonistas también ganan un lugar importante en nosotros al ver el desarrollo de todo lo que ocurre.
Es un libro al que le deben dar una oportunidad porque permite entrar al género de la ciencia ficción. La información no es pesada, la trama es interesantísima, y permite meterse de lleno a un futuro tecnológico con parámetros de la humanidad cambiados, y hay otros entes. En lo particular, me llamó la atención que la historia se vincula tanto con la ciencia, que se los considera un tanto científicos en algún punto.
Lo único que marcaría es que hay ciertos errores tales como falta de signo de exclamación, o de pregunta, o una palabra de más en ciertas oraciones y tal. Pero nada, es una minucia porque la narración como tal me pareció muy buena, al igual que la ejecución de la trama del libro.
Recomendadísimo si queres leer ciencia ficción, o queres adentrarte en el género.
Este libro nos transporta al año 2052, con viajes en el tiempo logrados pero para ciertos objetivos, y eso está genial. Tenemos un preludio que nos explicita las reglas, como también qué ocurriría si los eventos del pasado cambiaran. Lo que interesa destacar, es que los viajes no pueden ser utilizados por cualquiera. La ONU tiene empresas particulares para que realicen estos viajes (para nosotros “Ucronia” será la empresa protagonista), y estos viajes se dan por diferentes proyectos presentados con índole investigativa. Sobre todo, para historiadores que quieran despejar dudas específicas que las fuentes no pueden aclarar, o bien, que no hay siquiera. Lo que sí, hay reglas, como por ejemplo no poder visitar los años más contemporáneos, o escenarios bélicos, criminales, etc. Escenarios que tengan espacio de violencia, con figuras que destaquen, y que puedan generar controversia para los viajantes. Esto es un muy buen punto, porque a pesar de que sea con carácter investigativo, nunca se sabe lo que podría pasar. De hecho, hay un ejemplo mega interesante que no voy a decirles porque sería spoiler.
Los trajes, el portal, el funcionamiento de la empresa como tal, y la tecnología para viajar al futuro, están presentes en el libro. Por lo tanto, tenemos detalle de cada cosita que veamos, y eso le da mucho realismo. Detalles en diálogos o viajes en donde podemos dar cuenta la cantidad de herramientas que están presentes.
Ahora bien, la trama como tal está dividida en dos, con diferentes protagonistas, pero que luego desembocan juntos. Por un lado, seguimos a Sprague, aquel que estará presente en los viajes al pasado (porque por regla deben ser cuatro en el viaje, contando con un médico), y es un protagonista que está preparado para cualquier eventualidad, lo cual lo hace perfecto para agregarlo a los proyectos de viaje. Por lo tanto, podremos ver con él cómo funcionan estos proyectos.
Por otro lado, Edgar y Mark, dos cabezas importantes dentro de “Ucronia”, deben una deuda millonaria a Biao, y el plan que tienen en mente conlleva viajar en el tiempo para manipular cierto evento, y así obtener rédito económico.
Ambas tramas son interesantes porque se dan a lo largo del libro, permitiendo conocer tanto el año en el que nos encontramos como lectores, como también el funcionamiento de los proyectos. Los protagonistas también ganan un lugar importante en nosotros al ver el desarrollo de todo lo que ocurre.
Es un libro al que le deben dar una oportunidad porque permite entrar al género de la ciencia ficción. La información no es pesada, la trama es interesantísima, y permite meterse de lleno a un futuro tecnológico con parámetros de la humanidad cambiados, y hay otros entes. En lo particular, me llamó la atención que la historia se vincula tanto con la ciencia, que se los considera un tanto científicos en algún punto.
Lo único que marcaría es que hay ciertos errores tales como falta de signo de exclamación, o de pregunta, o una palabra de más en ciertas oraciones y tal. Pero nada, es una minucia porque la narración como tal me pareció muy buena, al igual que la ejecución de la trama del libro.
Recomendadísimo si queres leer ciencia ficción, o queres adentrarte en el género.
February 28, 2025
Raymond Sprague es contratado por una organización dedicada a hacer viajes en el tiempo para hacer misiones especiales. Junto a su equipo conformado por Eva, Yoko y Azucena van a emprender este viaje.
Pero como en toda organización importante y con una misión poderosa, existen hombres con ambiciones equivocadas que van a utilizar esa herramienta para sus propios intereses. Es por eso que Sprague deberá intervenir y evitar que eso suceda. Porque... qué consecuencias podría acarrear el hecho de cambiar algo en el pasado? probablemente nada bueno.
Si comienzo por lo negativo, siento que a la historia le faltó un poquito más de power, tal vez más tensión. Pero yendo a lo positivo, me gustó y me pareció original que no se enfoque en la misión del equipo, sino mas bien, en los "malos" de la historia y en sus planes ambiciosos. Así como también el hecho de que el autor utiliza sucesos históricos de nuestro país, por ejemplo, volver al pasado para matar a un reconocido personaje de la historia. Admito que me divertí mucho en esta parte.
La resolución del problema me sorprendió porque no era una opción que yo tenía en mi mente, ni siquiera lo había pensado. Y es bastante creativo y divertido.
Aunque no es de mis libros favoritos del autor hasta el momento, es otro libro de Esteban que pude disfrutar!
Pero como en toda organización importante y con una misión poderosa, existen hombres con ambiciones equivocadas que van a utilizar esa herramienta para sus propios intereses. Es por eso que Sprague deberá intervenir y evitar que eso suceda. Porque... qué consecuencias podría acarrear el hecho de cambiar algo en el pasado? probablemente nada bueno.
Si comienzo por lo negativo, siento que a la historia le faltó un poquito más de power, tal vez más tensión. Pero yendo a lo positivo, me gustó y me pareció original que no se enfoque en la misión del equipo, sino mas bien, en los "malos" de la historia y en sus planes ambiciosos. Así como también el hecho de que el autor utiliza sucesos históricos de nuestro país, por ejemplo, volver al pasado para matar a un reconocido personaje de la historia. Admito que me divertí mucho en esta parte.
La resolución del problema me sorprendió porque no era una opción que yo tenía en mi mente, ni siquiera lo había pensado. Y es bastante creativo y divertido.
Aunque no es de mis libros favoritos del autor hasta el momento, es otro libro de Esteban que pude disfrutar!
September 9, 2022
𝑻𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆: Journey to the Past
𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓: Esteban Corio
𝑴𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘:
I love reading Science fiction novels. Recently I got my hands on Esteban's "Journey To The Past". We all love thinking about time travel and wish to travel back in time so we could change the past but we forget to think about the consequences it can have in the future.
Raymond Sprague was waiting for the meeting with Edgar Martinez, the director of operations of Ucronia Corporation. Ucronia is one of the few private corporations licensed by the UN to travel back in time for investigative purposes. Five years ago, Edgar resigned from Interpol to serve as a private investigator on security issues. Ucronia has projects in which Raymond's expertise can be helpful.
Read this story to know more about his work and the time travel involved here. I appreciate the author's choice of title for this book as it fits very well according to the story.
Science fiction novels with time travel are everyone's favorites. I am glad to get my hands on this book. I enjoyed every bit of it. The plot of the story is gripping. This book kept me on the edge of my seat until I finished it. If you are looking for an adventure, then pick a copy of this book and enjoy time travel with the characters of this story.
𝑴𝒚 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 5/5
𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓: Esteban Corio
𝑴𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘:
I love reading Science fiction novels. Recently I got my hands on Esteban's "Journey To The Past". We all love thinking about time travel and wish to travel back in time so we could change the past but we forget to think about the consequences it can have in the future.
Raymond Sprague was waiting for the meeting with Edgar Martinez, the director of operations of Ucronia Corporation. Ucronia is one of the few private corporations licensed by the UN to travel back in time for investigative purposes. Five years ago, Edgar resigned from Interpol to serve as a private investigator on security issues. Ucronia has projects in which Raymond's expertise can be helpful.
Read this story to know more about his work and the time travel involved here. I appreciate the author's choice of title for this book as it fits very well according to the story.
Science fiction novels with time travel are everyone's favorites. I am glad to get my hands on this book. I enjoyed every bit of it. The plot of the story is gripping. This book kept me on the edge of my seat until I finished it. If you are looking for an adventure, then pick a copy of this book and enjoy time travel with the characters of this story.
𝑴𝒚 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 5/5
June 11, 2022
Put on your thinking cap to the possibilities and consquences of what time travel could bring
Time is like a domino effect: one action causes another. But what if you could travel in the past and avoid this or tweak that? What we as humans never think about is the consequences of those changes. In the novel Journey to the Past by Esteban Corio the main character is about to find out what happens when you change the past with no regards to the future.
This book really made me put on my thinking cap and open my mind to the possibilities and consequences that time travel could bring. The novel is full of depth and easy to read. It is obvious to me that the extraordinary writing had to come from a great mind to create such a wonderful story with basic human empathy.
I would recommend this book to fans of Back to the Future and Nick Iuppa novels. The book will resonate with sci-fi fans but will also be appealing to a general audience because of the relationships and adventure aspect it brings.
Time is like a domino effect: one action causes another. But what if you could travel in the past and avoid this or tweak that? What we as humans never think about is the consequences of those changes. In the novel Journey to the Past by Esteban Corio the main character is about to find out what happens when you change the past with no regards to the future.
This book really made me put on my thinking cap and open my mind to the possibilities and consequences that time travel could bring. The novel is full of depth and easy to read. It is obvious to me that the extraordinary writing had to come from a great mind to create such a wonderful story with basic human empathy.
I would recommend this book to fans of Back to the Future and Nick Iuppa novels. The book will resonate with sci-fi fans but will also be appealing to a general audience because of the relationships and adventure aspect it brings.
December 21, 2024
Gracias a la CM del autor por organizar el #libroviajero
Esta historia te atrapa desde el inicio. Hay viajes en el tiempo, investigadores, la ONU, acción y hasta mafiosos!!
De a ratos me parecía que tenía vocabulario específico del género (sci-fi) no es difícil la lectura, pero sentí ese uso de palabras técnicas que el lector de ciencia ficción ya esta acostumbrado.
Muy buena lectura!! Recomendado!
Esta historia te atrapa desde el inicio. Hay viajes en el tiempo, investigadores, la ONU, acción y hasta mafiosos!!
De a ratos me parecía que tenía vocabulario específico del género (sci-fi) no es difícil la lectura, pero sentí ese uso de palabras técnicas que el lector de ciencia ficción ya esta acostumbrado.
Muy buena lectura!! Recomendado!
March 10, 2023
Creative and inventive
I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway
As much as I enjoyed the story (it was incredibly imaginative and well-crafted), it was hard at many points to get beyond the very sloppy translation. It usually shows up in the gender of the pronouns chosen. I imagine reading this in the original language would be a very different experience.
I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway
As much as I enjoyed the story (it was incredibly imaginative and well-crafted), it was hard at many points to get beyond the very sloppy translation. It usually shows up in the gender of the pronouns chosen. I imagine reading this in the original language would be a very different experience.
June 19, 2021
The novel Journey to the past by Esteban Corio is an absolute page-turner. It is a must read for those who like well written sci fi about time travel.
June 22, 2021
Easy to read and enjoyable read. I'm rating it 5 stars easy.
August 30, 2024
I was really looking forward to this book and it did start out great and pulled me in. Alliance between humans and aliens. A strict control over any intervention into the timelines. A group of rag tag individuals to go on sanctioned missions. However there's a group of these individuals who decide to skirt the system for their own advantage and of course it goes awry!
I do have to say I enjoyed that Randy did go back to the 1990's and the nostalgy of the items and things he encounters hits home. There are some good parts, but most was just hard to consume and follow and was steering in the wrong direction.
Don't think I'd read this again, but kudos to the author who is from Buenos Aires and his attempt to write in English or have this book translated.
I received an advance review copy for free from GoodReads, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I do have to say I enjoyed that Randy did go back to the 1990's and the nostalgy of the items and things he encounters hits home. There are some good parts, but most was just hard to consume and follow and was steering in the wrong direction.
Don't think I'd read this again, but kudos to the author who is from Buenos Aires and his attempt to write in English or have this book translated.
I received an advance review copy for free from GoodReads, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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