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Subject: Re: "Home: Book Three, the Darwin's World Series" by Jack L Knapp
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:30:04 -0800
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:18:22 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 12/18/2024 10:51 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:50:30 -0600, Lynn McGuire
>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> "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 four in 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 =
live.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
>>> Amazon rating:  4.3 out of 5 stars (250 reviews)
>>=20
>> Are the slavers:
>> a) other humans, transplanted?
>> b) space aliens?
>> c) other Earth 4428 species?
>
>Every human on Earth 4428 is a transplant from Earth Prime.  Most are=20
>from the 20th century but quite a few are from 0 AD.  Earth 4428 was=20
>used since it did not have a native human population.
>
>Earth Prime 25th century humans are suiciding by the millions per year.=20
>The futurists are estimating that Earth Prime population will be less=20
>than a million in 20 years.  25th century humans are strange, they live=20
>alone, they do not leave their homes, they interact only with computers,=
=20
>they do not have sex with others, and they do not have children.  Kind=20
>of like the Spacers in Asimov's robot books.

So, then, are the slavers transplanted humans, space aliens, or
(non-human) locals?
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"