The Future Was Yesterday Author:Julius Kreier, Julius P. Kreier The Book, The Future Was Yesterday, is an historical novel based on the life of Xeronimo de Aguilar, a Spanish lay brother, who was shipwrecked in 1520 on the coast of Yucatan, and who spent nine years there in a Mayan village. His integration into Mayan life there and his subsequent passage to and experiences in Corts' troop, where he served a... more »s a translator during the Conquest, make up the fascinating body of this novella.« less