There are two sections in which Roberto Abad divides When the lights appear.

In the first, "Forms of Abduction," we meet a young man who, guided by Mr. Maussan, suspects that what his father has suffered is not a stroke; a man who sees himself in a painting that he has bought as a peace offering for his wife; an interrogation of a doctor who little by little remembers a mysterious town and its inhabitants.

"After contact", the second section, shows us interstellar loves and the bitterness that they awaken; a paranoid voice that arises after an insemination experiment; humanity that becomes an equation, a theory of sets.

Doubt, mystery, and strangeness pervade the six stories in this volume. In them, the reader will find a suspicious reality in which an unspoken, misty, uncertain truth is sensed; and just when that veil has transcended, another will come to impose itself that will make him question the new reality.

In a world similar to the known one, under the ravages of a broken system, several characters meet whose common aspect seems to be resistance. In these stories, robots, abductions, interventions in bodies, clones, genetic manipulation, the perverse determination of existence and emotions or the abuse of power incite us to brood through a register in tension. The lights appear, however, the stories we witness indicate that it may be too late.

—Daniela Tarazona