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New follow up book may be on the way.


I have it from an excellent source that the book about the Domes return is being written. Planned for a screenplay. I know a little about the story, but I am sworn to keep all but a few details under wraps.... I can say that the Dome was inadvertently launched into space on a very large return orbit of several hundred years.... Environment frozen, but DNA intact. No one left on Earth has ever seen a plant... or even remembers the Phenix project...

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Would love to see this workout, but, really there is no point. Anther "cash grab" sequel from past movies? One that very few were fans of also.

If it were EXTREMELY LOOSELY related, but a complete stand alone story, I could see it, IF the story itself was really, really interesting. The ONLY connection would be the frozen forest origin - but everything forward would focus on the people of earth reactions, their current brave new world, and I dunno, some rebels fighting off the DNA degeneration caused by lack of plant food, it could get interesting - on it's OWN merits with just the minor connection to SR.

But as a sequel all about the returning forest? Not sure it would be very interesting.

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