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Loading... Zig Zag: A Novelby José Carlos Somoza
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Spanish physicist David Blanes wants to use quantum physics and string theory to go back in time and warns his colleagues not to go back into the recent past. However, one does and things start going wrong. This was something new for me. I really did enjoy the suspense. The physics language was a bit beyond me but there wasn't so much of it that I couldn't keep up with what was going on. Not being a literary critic I thought it was written well enough to keep me going. ( )I liked the physics discussed in the book although I thought that the primary premise was a bit contrived. I love weird books and I'm a physicist, so what could be better than a weird book about physics. Eh, turns out quite a few things can be better. The writing was uneven and it felt like Somoza was trying for a movie deal the whole time, especially the part where the drop-dead gorgeous physicist runs around half-naked all the time. The plot was interesting enough to keep me from throwing the book down without finishing it, but felt contrived at times. On the positive side, the ending was sufficiently Twilight Zone-ish to give me chills. The physics was cool to think about even if it was pretty far out there. Bottom line: I'd recommend Zig Zag to people who really like weird science-y thrillers, but with a few caveats. no reviews | add a review
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While an advanced physics graduate student at one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, Elisa Robledo, a young physics professor was invited to join a select research team working on manipulating String Theory, making it possible to witness images of the past as if they were live and actually happening. According to the team's research, breaking down particles of light, and accessing the code hidden within each fragment, they theorized that the possibility of witnessing the past, viewing such milestone events as of the crucifixion of Christ, or the earth when dinosaurs still roamed. Scurried away on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, they made leaping advancements in their analysis. Yet, their experiments resulted in something much more frightening and dangerous than any of them could have ever imagined. The team awoke something dangerous in their meddling into the fluctuation of Time.
Now, years later, Elisa is faced with solving the mysterious and gruesome deaths of each member of the team she was once so proud to be a part of. Something or someone has focused their sights on Elisa and her former academic fellowship. In order to solve the mystery behind what the team's experiments awoke and just who or what is behind the dark forces trailing the once team's every move, Elisa must discover what really happened on the island where her team was once sequestered, and where she had naively thought their dedicated science was meant for good.
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