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[james_davis_nicoll]

OK, I understand that with the end of the 191 series, Turtledove has to come up with a new series to fill that slot in his publishing schedule. I understand the intellectual attraction of trying to come up with a history where the Book of Mormon is a fairly literal account of Pre-Columbian History, then examining what would have happened if the New Worlders had been an iron-age culture in decline when the Europeans showed up. I can kind of understand why he has historical New Worlders popping up in a history whose POD is 2600 years ago. I even understand that coming up with a plausible mechanism for the Curse of the Lamanites seemed necessary.

But chromataphores? In humans? I'm sorry but handwaving about the Founder Effect and natural rDNA isn't going to make this work for me.