Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Home: Book Three, the Darwin's World Series" by Jack L Knapp Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:28:12 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:28:13 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6d8f9598d74e75c6f619ea9f7f2e4b53"; logging-data="2377875"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lX08qYWwKNMyzVJArSQdejHxjh7Ndps4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:EhWH24hmCISHIApILoBpYl83C8g= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 3097 On 18/12/2024 03:50, Lynn McGuire wrote: > "Home: Book Three, the Darwin's World Series" by Jack L Knapp >    https://www.amazon.com/Home-Book-Three-Darwins-World/dp/1719885370/ > > Book number three of a five book science fiction series.  I read the > well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback > published in 2018 by the author that I bought new on Amazon.  I have > bought book Hin the series for reading soon. > > In the 25th century, humanity has solved all problems and even created > machines for time travel and parallel universe travel.  But, they caused > a new problem, humanity is dying out as people have lost the will to liv > So the future scientists are bringing forward dying people from the 20th > century, restoring their bodies to their 20 year old age, and > transferring them to Earth 4428, a human less parallel world going > through the end of the Pleistocene ice age.  With nothing but a few > tools and the clothes on their backs.  Survive or die in the primitive > conditions of what will be the southern USA but there are lions, big > cats, mammoths, bison, dire wolves, deer, elk, short face bears, > grizzlies, etc.  And chest deep snow in the winters. > > Matt and several others were deposited by the futurists into what will > be the eastern portion of Texas.  They moved to the western side of > Texas and closer to the Gulf of Mexico to reduce the number of slaver > attackers and the terrible winters.  They settled in what is the Rio > Grande area, close to the Gulf of Mexico.  But, there is a huge slaver > community just south of them. If I'm following you, the slavers presumably also are refugees from the 20th century, but the authors is not presenting their point of view - which however, appears to be dominant in this setting. Or perhaps the outlook of slaves is numerically dominant. I don't see what the goal of 25th century scientists is, except to make their own citizens be grateful that they aren't living on Earth 4428.