J. D. Cortese Libri

A DON QUIXOTE FOR OUR CENTURY Two high schoolers become unlikely friends across the distance between their cultures. They are two Quixotes who are each other's Sancho. Julian, an Argentine who's a budding conspiracy theorist, would try to infiltrate a military dictatorship and expose its crimes. Edgar, a lonely American expat and science genius, would risk everything to rescue his idealistic Dulcinea from the claws of those same monsters. While fighting to find reason in a world that has lost it completely, they will both doubt their sanity in confronting a massive evil that builds deceptions to hide its nightmares. But as Edgar's reality starts to unravel, he realizes that his quest might be impossible. Because he has received a message from the future, which poses an unsolvable question: what do you need to change to save humanity's future? And the messenger was very clear about how important it is for him to solve this puzzle. Because if Edgar doesn't, the man from the future would have to kill him. Set in Buenos Aires and against the background of the 1978 Soccer World Cup-with Argentina both suffering a bloodthirsty tyranny and cheering for a victory of their National Team-this is a story about fighting at all costs to alter the unfathomable mechanism of human history. A fight that could break the chains of time

THEY ARE WATCHING US, BUT WE CAN'T SEE THEM Time travelers watch our downfall from their invisible sky cities, the Watchtowers. Agdinar is one of their Watchers, not old enough to drive an air-vehicle but old enough to get into a lot of trouble with one of them. He rebels against the Watchtowers' hierarchy by taking aerial joyrides over the perilous world of 2,056's New York. After a fight with the lead Overseer, Agdinar runs away and breaks one more rule when he tries to rescue two early-human girls from the Hawks, the band of armed extremists that occupies Manhattan and most of what's left of the country. He saves Sarinda, the strong-willed Major's daughter, but loses her friend Tysa to the Hawks. Agdinar has changed the city's future and, if found by the Towers, he would be punished with permanent stasis. Ignoring his fears, Agdinar remains in the lower world to help Sarinda rescue Tysa. But this would be only the first of their problems. New York is approaching what would be known as the Second Descent, the start of centuries of worldwide chaos. As they battle to save their city, the ultimate design the Watchtowers have for our future would be revealed.