The supposed setting from which this novel started, commercially presented as "a world populated by the most abject characters in history" caught my attention. Because when it comes to writing about abject characters, you already have your experience.
What he book The gate of darkness It does is to use science fiction once more to confront our world with an extremely adverse reality. The man manipulating his destiny and encountering the most abominable demons in the process.
From Below, historical figures who were once confined to a particular exile return to Earth. As in a man-made final judgment, evil seems to materialize in that black fate that those recovered from hell can freely write once recovered for the cause.
The situation is provoked in the manner of a Ministry of Time, the Spanish series that currently triumphs, with a point of greater technological sophistication, with a knowledge of the technical ins and outs that the English MI5 knows and manipulates and with a blacker and fatalistic setting typical of the thriller.
The ignition of a particle collider opens the corridor of particles capable of joining the real world with that scientific limbo where the evil characters were separated. As if that were not enough, its disastrous ignition affects many other inhabitants of the planet, generating a general atmosphere of alienation that heralds a crisis for humanity.
Once the nightmare is unraveled, the challenge is presented as a mission for John and Emily, the only ones who assume the need to reveal the truth and take action to avoid the catastrophe. Nothing will be on your side, the narrative progresses without any signs of a solution. Only the strongest will, or overflowing with it, the confidence in a liberating destiny will be able to recover a world on the brink of the abyss.
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