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The Door Behind the Wall

La puerta detrás del muro

In 2119, nobody in Santo Domingo can read anymore — the machines talk, so why bother? Then a historian knocks on a hollow colonial wall and finds ten thousand paper books, an old man who's been waiting fifty years, and a secret that gives civilization exactly ninety days to live.

Part 1 of 2 in The Last Readers

El muro sonaba hueco. Zoraida Peña golpeó otra vez con los nudillos, allí donde el yeso colonial mostraba una grieta demasiado recta para ser natural. Su dron de catalogación flotaba detrás de ella, recitando con voz amable: «Estructura declarada en ruina.

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