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Proyecto Nostalgia
Anderson es un exsoldado que vive en Norwin, un lugar triste, apagado y gris después de la Tercera Guerra Mundial, un enfrentamiento que sumió al mundo en una quietud desoladora. Su esposa y sus hermanas son lo único que le queda, además de “la nostalgia”, un extraño síndrome que se apodera de la mente de los que combatieron, y que comienza a mezclar realidades y tiempos en ellos.
Se dice que todo funciona a media máquina, que la vida debe seguir su curso, como en el pasado.
Se dice que todo está bien, pero detrás de esa calma se esconde una mano oscura: el partido de Sion, una organización con fines perversos que busca apoderarse de lo que queda.
Se dice que todo funciona a media máquina, que la vida debe seguir su curso, como en el pasado.
Se dice que todo está bien, pero detrás de esa calma se esconde una mano oscura: el partido de Sion, una organización con fines perversos que busca apoderarse de lo que queda.
110 pages
Published January 1, 2022
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May 22, 2025
Me encantó! Realmente es un muy buen libro
March 19, 2026
I was looking for some more Chilean SFF because I get tired of solely reading books in English, and this novella was available for a quick borrow. To the book's merit, there's some cool story ideas which include the confused mentally ill protagonist trope.
The book's title Nostalgia (is this the exact English word equivalent? My head can't seem to agree whether the only English adjacent word is nostalgic) is the name of an unusual PTSD adjacent disease that exclusively affects veterans from a vague Middle Eastern-African war. Symptoms are somewhat similar to regular PTSD while being progressive and eventually, the afflicted dies from dementia.
As the book's most interesting (and main) element, I felt things were not explained that well, particularly regarding a spoilery event of the disease at the end of the book.
Even though the book's ending somewhat has a valid excuse, I spent an inordinate amount of time wondering why would a prominent upcoming politician hire a man who freezes for 2 minutes at a time several times a day due to his neurological disease to become his chief part-time bodyguard. There's tons of things that never becomes properly explained in this book. And it is a shame, because when handelled well, the confused protagonist trope confers an awesome reading experience for me. I believe the book with this trope that I have enjoyed the most was 'A foolish wind' by Andy Roberts. Not only is the fugue episodes consistent during the entire story with true stakes at inopportune times, the book explains pretty well why the protagonist has ended up in a stable, albeit static stage of improvement and has come to accept his disability.
I both feel Nostalgia couldn't make its mind whether to become a novelette that skims through the aftermath of the already finished war and a full-fledged novel that offers the reader nibbles as we wonder whether Anderson is a reliable narrator or not. This book doesn't really develop the post-apocalyptic world where Christianity is now a semi-extinct religion yet people in Anderson's unspecified country speak current-day English. A part of me felt the book would have benefitted from a sensitivity reader regarding the spotty disability representation and that the concluded war was due to anti islamic religious intolerance. Given the cause of the war isn't a key focus on the neurological disease, it could have been about something less controversial such as natural resources or trade disputes.
That doesn't mean I hated every aspect of the book. Anderson was an ok enough protagonist, the first and final chapters are the best ones in the book and I liked the ending. If this had been an indie author's debut, I would have rated it higher. However, even though the editorial seems to be a smaller indie one, I will assume there were editors that combed through this quick read and would have made the same observations I did.
While the Spanish used uses a few Chilean terms, the prose is actually quite neutral and easy to read. The concise writing style helped further. I spotted one typo around page 89, an incorrect verb tense 'presiono' due to the lack of a tilde. The verb should have been spelled presionó because the text implies an action in past tense.
The book's title Nostalgia (is this the exact English word equivalent? My head can't seem to agree whether the only English adjacent word is nostalgic) is the name of an unusual PTSD adjacent disease that exclusively affects veterans from a vague Middle Eastern-African war. Symptoms are somewhat similar to regular PTSD while being progressive and eventually, the afflicted dies from dementia.
As the book's most interesting (and main) element, I felt things were not explained that well, particularly regarding a spoilery event of the disease at the end of the book.
Even though the book's ending somewhat has a valid excuse, I spent an inordinate amount of time wondering why would a prominent upcoming politician hire a man who freezes for 2 minutes at a time several times a day due to his neurological disease to become his chief part-time bodyguard. There's tons of things that never becomes properly explained in this book. And it is a shame, because when handelled well, the confused protagonist trope confers an awesome reading experience for me. I believe the book with this trope that I have enjoyed the most was 'A foolish wind' by Andy Roberts. Not only is the fugue episodes consistent during the entire story with true stakes at inopportune times, the book explains pretty well why the protagonist has ended up in a stable, albeit static stage of improvement and has come to accept his disability.
I both feel Nostalgia couldn't make its mind whether to become a novelette that skims through the aftermath of the already finished war and a full-fledged novel that offers the reader nibbles as we wonder whether Anderson is a reliable narrator or not. This book doesn't really develop the post-apocalyptic world where Christianity is now a semi-extinct religion yet people in Anderson's unspecified country speak current-day English. A part of me felt the book would have benefitted from a sensitivity reader regarding the spotty disability representation and that the concluded war was due to anti islamic religious intolerance. Given the cause of the war isn't a key focus on the neurological disease, it could have been about something less controversial such as natural resources or trade disputes.
That doesn't mean I hated every aspect of the book. Anderson was an ok enough protagonist, the first and final chapters are the best ones in the book and I liked the ending. If this had been an indie author's debut, I would have rated it higher. However, even though the editorial seems to be a smaller indie one, I will assume there were editors that combed through this quick read and would have made the same observations I did.
While the Spanish used uses a few Chilean terms, the prose is actually quite neutral and easy to read. The concise writing style helped further. I spotted one typo around page 89, an incorrect verb tense 'presiono' due to the lack of a tilde. The verb should have been spelled presionó because the text implies an action in past tense.
November 16, 2025
Una idea interesante, no muy novedosa eso sí, escrito de forma simple y con exceso de diálogo.
Política oculta, mundos postguerra y personajes bastante planos.
Se deja leer pero nada más.
Política oculta, mundos postguerra y personajes bastante planos.
Se deja leer pero nada más.
September 2, 2025
Muy buena historia, buena narración. No le puse 5 estrellas porque en algunas partes sentía que el diálogo era apresurado, pero estuvo muy entretenido, ya comenzaré el segundo libro
October 11, 2024
Este libro esta dentro del género de la distopía.
Wouu que pedazo de libro, es cortito, pero tiene una trama tan bien contada que siento que tuve las páginas precisas para contar todo. Acción, nostalgía, efectos post guerra, intriga, romance y un desenlace de pelicula.
Me gusto mucho la pluma del autor, es clara, va directo al grano sin rodeos, pero a su vez manteniendo el suspenso de la trama, revelando en cada capítulo lo que trataba el "proyecto nostalgía" y quienes eran los villanos en la historia.
El personaje de Anderson me gusto porque siento que cumplió su objetivo, como ex soldado, estaba bien detallado.
Quede muy intrigada con el final, que ya leí en el segundo libro🤭. Totalmente recomendado.
Wouu que pedazo de libro, es cortito, pero tiene una trama tan bien contada que siento que tuve las páginas precisas para contar todo. Acción, nostalgía, efectos post guerra, intriga, romance y un desenlace de pelicula.
Me gusto mucho la pluma del autor, es clara, va directo al grano sin rodeos, pero a su vez manteniendo el suspenso de la trama, revelando en cada capítulo lo que trataba el "proyecto nostalgía" y quienes eran los villanos en la historia.
El personaje de Anderson me gusto porque siento que cumplió su objetivo, como ex soldado, estaba bien detallado.
Quede muy intrigada con el final, que ya leí en el segundo libro🤭. Totalmente recomendado.
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