2. Ask the author

[Manuel]

2. Ask here any question you want to address the author of the book, that isn't covered by the other topics in this discussion.

[Steven R.]

As soon as I finished this I wondered about others set in the same world. Are their other stories?

I immediately thought of C.S. Lewis's Ransom being summoned to another plant again, or later fighting darkness at home.

And also of Quinn's My Ishmael or more so The Story of B where it is the disciple carrying the message. I want to know what happens with the message next. How does it spread, does in spread to this whole world? Or even beyond?

And I am curious about the miraculous healing? I fail to see how it fits?

[Manuel]

Just now there are no further stories taking place in this world. I see you are asking for the "Acts of the Apostles" and the Epistles, right?

With the miraculous healing I suppose you mean the disappearance of the mark of Cain on Israel's forehead. It's intended to mean that original sin has been somehow cancelled by Christ's death and resurrection.

[Fonch]

Yesterday in Religión y Libertad i read a review of this topic. Tgat if the resurrection of Jesus Christ only would serve to our world and for all posible universes.

[Manuel]

Fonch wrote: "Yesterday in Religión y Libertad i read a review of this topic. Tgat if the resurrection of Jesus Christ only would serve to our world and for all posible universes."

In fact, my book does not address this question. The Chronicles of Narnia don't address it either.

[Fonch]

Perelandra, not? Really the article was a critic about the existence of aliens. Religión en Libertad is very critic with the existence of aliens. About this topic about agnostic.

[Manuel]

Fonch wrote: "Perelandra, not? Really the article was a critic about the existence of aliens. Religión en Libertad is very critic with the existence of aliens. About this topic about agnostic."

In my book La Vida En Otros Mundos ("Life in other worlds") I stated that, for me, the probability of intelligent life in other worlds is 50%. In other words, I don't know. :-)

[Manuel]

Manuel wrote: "Just now there are no further stories taking place in this world. "

But I have more stories (previously written) in the same line. My series called the Chronicles of the Magical Jigsaw Puzzle (five books). They also describe how redemption could have happened in another world. And there are even common characters with the History of the Earth-9 Colony. :-)

[Steven R.]

Manuel wrote: "Just now there are no further stories taking place in this world. I see you are asking for the "Acts of the Apostles" and the Epistles, right?

With the miraculous healing I suppose you mean the di..."

That makes sense now.

[Fonch]

Really, there are common characters in the Magic Jigsaw? 😍

[Fonch]

Concern about Alien existence we Will have to follow waiting 😉.

[Fonch]

I have started and i have a question. Although we have decided that we are agnostic about the existence of aliens. I would like to ask the Professor Why his aliens have the shape of snakes, or reptiles? in other novels his aliens other figure?

[Manuel]

Fonch wrote: "I would like to ask the Professor Why his aliens have the shape of snakes, or reptiles? in other novels his aliens other figure?"

I have just two novels with aliens. Both have been read in the club. In this novel, the aliens had to be snake-like for several reasons:

a) So that Adam could say in chapter 1: we even have the snake.
b) So that Israel could show the serpentine to the colony wardens in the same way as Moses did with the Pharaoh.
c) So that serpentines could be used as a symbol during the Exodus.

The aliens in my other novel (Under an Orange Sky) were not reptilians, they looked like large sausages or hairy worms.

[Fonch]

They were very close the worms and the sanakes :-). what was the inspiration of the aliens of Under an orange sky? I know it, but it can be that the rest of the group can be interested in this question.

[Manuel]

Fonch wrote: "What was the inspiration of the aliens of Under an orange sky?"

You mean that there was a precedent of aliens in the form of hairy worms in the novel Legacy by James H. Schmitz, which I read first in the nineteen sixties.

[Fonch]

Yes this thing i wanted to read. It was an good annecdote and i wanted the members of the group knowed it.

[John]

I didn't understand the purpose of (view spoiler)[the Cain/Abel battle in the incubator. Israel gets the mark of Cain, but it is his brother who is the aggressor, trying to kill him and Israel not only doesn't kill his brother, he merely avoids being killed, which causes his brother to kill himself. (hide spoiler)] What was the intent behind this scene?

[Manuel]

John wrote: "I didn't understand the purpose of [spoilers removed] What was the intent behind this scene?"

(view spoiler)[I was not trying to make a perfect parallel to Genesis. The scene represents the Cain/Abel battle, but at the same time Israel represents the whole people, which means also Seth's descendants, therefore I didn't want to make him take all the blame, so I divided it among both twins, putting most of it on the other twin.

The mark of Cain also represents original sin, so Israel had to have it, so it could be erased after Kial's sacrifice.

Parallels cannot be perfect, for I was condensing thousands of years into just fifteen.

It could also be said that Virgin Mary is absent, but Kial could not be begot in the usual way, for he wouldn't have had the proper age at the time of his sacrifice. (hide spoiler)]

[Fonch]

Manuel wrote: "John wrote: "I didn't understand the purpose of [spoilers removed] What was the intent behind this scene?"

I was not trying to make a perfect parallel to Genesis. The scene represents the Cain/Abe..."

I must say that the beggining i lost with the beggining, but the rest of the book was awesome.

[Manuel]

Steven R. wrote: "As soon as I finished this I wondered about others set in the same world. Are their other stories?"

For your information, I have just started writing a sequel to The history of the Earth-9 colony.

[Fonch]

I Will be able to read it 😍