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message 1: by Petra (new)

Petra Gabriele | 2 comments Written before 2000. Generation ship returns to Earth but the Earthlings realize that the newcomers outnumber them 100 to 1, so there is no room for them on Earth. Finally the solution is found: they send the newcomers back in time, each group separated by 1 million years, starting 65 million years ago.


message 2: by Kris (new)

Kris | 54918 comments Mod
Petra, that's a good start. You need to add full genre (e.g., adult or teen sci fi?) and more plot details from your comments to the topic header (title), so someone can recognize your book from that description alone. We have thousands of book requests.

Click the small "edit" link after the header. This only works on the full Desktop website - not the Mobile website or app. (On the Mobile website, there's a "Desktop version" link at the bottom of the page.)

- Who are the main characters?


message 3: by beichst (new)

beichst | 171 comments Are you sure it was a generation ship that returned to Earth? The reason I ask is that the novel Our Children's Children by Simak Clifford D. has some points of similarity with the scenario you describe. Namely including our descendants coming back to the present and then going back 65 million years or so leaving space for other generations to go back as well.

"Our human descendants from five centuries in the future are coming to visit - all one billion of them - arriving via tunnels through time. Even though the present is merely a stopover and their ultimate destination is the age of the dinosaurs, their arrival has caused a worldwide uproar."


https://www.amazon.com/Our-Childrens-...


message 4: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart | 28640 comments Our Children's Children for the Goodreads link.


message 5: by Petra (new)

Petra Gabriele | 2 comments Kris wrote: "Petra, that's a good start. You need to add full genre (e.g., adult or teen sci fi?) and more plot details from your comments to the topic header (title), so someone can recognize your book from th..." If I remembered any of that I might have more luck finding the novel again. It was a generation ship layered like a onion. With no monsters following like suggested by the other user here.


message 6: by Kris (new)

Kris | 54918 comments Mod
Petra, please post a new comment if you're still looking for this book - or if you found it.

Petra (OP) was last active on the site in July 2020. Moving to Abandoned folder.


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