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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Home: Book Three, the Darwin's World Series" by Jack L Knapp
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:48:08 -0600
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On 12/20/2024 11:47 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:44:43 -0600, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/19/2024 10:30 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "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)
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>> >from the 20th century but quite a few are from 0 AD.  Earth 4428 was 
>>>> used since it did not have a native human population.
>>>>
>>>> Earth Prime 25th century humans are suiciding by the millions per year.
>>>> The futurists are estimating that Earth Prime population will be less
>>>> than a million in 20 years.  25th century humans are strange, they live
>>>> alone, they do not leave their homes, they interact only with computers,
>>>> they do not have sex with others, and they do not have children.  Kind
>>>> of like the Spacers in Asimov's robot books.
>>>
>>> So, then, are the slavers transplanted humans, space aliens, or
>>> (non-human) locals?
>>
>> The slavers are transplanted humans.
>>
>> Actually, I was wrong, every human on Earth 4428 is not a transplanted
>> human from Earth Prime.  There are now many children being born on Earth
>> 4428.  The number of transplanted humans and children is over a million
>> people now on Earth 4428.
> 
> That's OK; I took it in the same sense that my maternal grandfather
> was a German: all four of his great-grandparents were brought
> ("transplanted") to the USA in the mid-19th century. (Basically, two
> villages from what was, for a while, East Germany migrated and, being
> peasants, immediately went where the land was cheap. My uncle, after
> we had one Germany again, visited some 5th or 6th cousins, who still
> retained a memory of our ancestor's departing for America.)
> 
> In the USA, we are /all/ immigrants. Some came recently, some came
> 10,000 years ago.

My wife is half English heritage, half Cherokee heritage.  Her mother 
did not even have a birth certificate being born in the back hills in 
Arkansas in 1935.  Both of my wife's mother's grandmothers were full 
blood Cherokees.

Lynn