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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "The Trek: An Epic of Survival (The Darwin's World Series)" by Jack L Knapp
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 08:53:37 -0800
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 09:02:06 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

>On 12/14/24 08:18, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:33:22 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 12/13/24 12:48, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>>> In article <vji5c1$3jje0$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 12/13/2024 10:41 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:59:53 -0600, Lynn McGuire
>>>>>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "The Trek: An Epic of Survival (The Darwin's World Series)" by =
Jack L Knapp
>>>>>>>       =
https://www.amazon.com/Trek-Epic-Survival-Darwins-World/dp/1719878196/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Book number two of a five book science fiction series.  I read =
the well
>>>>>>> printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback that=
 I
>>>>>>> bought new on Amazon.  I have bought book three 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 a Earth 4428, a 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,
>>>>>>> bisons, 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 have decided to move to =
the
>>>>>>> western side of Texas and closer to the Gulf of Mexico to =
hopefully
>>>>>>> reduce the number of slaver attackers and the terrible winters.  =
But
>>>>>>> moving hundreds of miles using human powered travoises and carts =
is not
>>>>>>> easy without roads and bridges.  And constantly watching for =
predators
>>>>>>> or prey to eat.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What, no dogs to pull the traverses?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I suppose which Pleistocene ice age was being used. According =
to
>>>>>> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene#Major_events] (scroll
>>>>>> down!), there are four choices (in N America):
>>>>>> Nebraskan
>>>>>> Kansan
>>>>>> Illinoian
>>>>>> Wisconsian
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If it an early-enough period, I suppose there might be no dogs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
>>>>>>> Amazon rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars (306 reviews)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lynn
>>>>>
>>>>> The dogs got eaten by the sabertooth tigers and the bears.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Oh my!"
>>>
>>> 	Sounds very unlikely as Canids survived them in this
>>> world. We might have to tame our wolves all over again so
>>> they are not a solution to the transport problem. Of course
>>> the wolves that we tamed were the wolves waiting for
>>> a handout. Wolves probably tamed humans as much as vice versa.
>>=20
>> Which world? The Pleistocene world the abductees are set down in, or
>> the future world intended for colonization?
>
>	Whichever world in which Canids are social and have humans
>at hand.
>	Canids have been around longer than people much like most
>of the other mammalian species.

True enough, but then why are they not pulling the resurrected
colonists sleds for them?

But perhaps what I should /really/ be asking is "just how modern /are/
these people?" Perhaps they never heard of dogs pulling sleds. Or
spears. Or bows-and-arrows.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"