Kronos: La puerta del tiempo. (Kronos: A Gateway to Time)
Reviewed by Rafael Ocasio -- Críticas, 9/1/2008
Botaya, Felipe.
Spain/U.S.: Nowtilus. 2008. 349p. ISBN 978-84-9763-537-0. pap. $26.95. FICTION
It’s 1944, toward the end of World War II, and Hitler’s Secret Service forces are feverishly working on a special project: testing a time machine that will change the course of the war. German physicists had been successful in putting together such a machine, and with it they had gone on scientific expeditions into the past, such as to the earth’s pre-history. They were desperately in need of time, especially after having successfully traveled to the future and witnessed the German defeat at Normandy. Their new project is, indeed, crazy. First they must travel to Ethiopia in order to steal from its final resting place the mythical Ark of the Covenant, which scientists hope to learn how to use and to take into the future for use against the American allies at Normandy. Surprisingly, the plan almost works out for the Germans. This novel is heavily grounded in descriptions of the advanced German scientific knowledge evident in the weaponry developed for use during the war, so much so that the novel reads more like a lesson in physics, medicine, or botany. Recommended as a secondary holding for very large collections.
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