Jack L Knapp has 10 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.2★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is The New Frontiers Series Boxed Set.
Boxed Set, The Darwin's World Series: Includes Darwin's World, The Trek, and Home
Summary
Three complete novels. Thirty-three hours of survival action. If you're a fan of Robert A. Heinlein, Jean Auel, and S. M. Stirling, you're going to love Jack L Knapp. Thousands of copies have been downloaded. This is survivalism at its best...in an Earth that never knew humans! Darwin's World: Imagine being transplanted to a virgin planet during the Ice Age with nothing more than a knife and hatchet! Perfect freedom to live or die! Alone, surrounded by saber-tooth cats, dire wolves, giant bears, and predatory humans! The Trek: The only hope for survival is to find a place that can be defended. Even if it means traveling across Texas in the dead of an ice age winter.... Home: Building new homes and finding food and firewood is only the beginning. A society to the south survives by raiding and slavery. The first captives from the tribe have already been taken....
©2016 Jack L Knapp (P)2017 Jack L Knapp
The New Frontiers Series Boxed Set
Summary
Three complete novels. Almost 1,000 pages of lighting-paced action. Anyone who is a fan of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, David Weber will love Jack L. Knapp. And they do. Thousands of copies have been downloaded. This is science-fiction at its best - future engineering, intrigue, first contact....It’s a space opera like none you’ve experienced before. The audiobooks will keep you listening late into the night - you won't be able to stop! Audiobook 1: The Ship Building a spaceship that uses Nicola Tesla's revolutionary space drive is only the beginning. From a new industrial revolution to the brink of global war, restless humanity presses onward, eventually to the first contact with an alien species. There will be changes...if we survive. Fans of Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, and Jerry Pournelle will love this hard SF series. "Readers who like their socket wrenches properly used will love this" - T. Jackson King "Interesting approach combining near future with imaginative science" - Amazon Customer "A real 'hard' science fiction novel. Jack Knapp continues to write a good story. I love that his editing is also superb. No more errors than I’d find in a professionally published book." - Ronald Q. Smith Audiobook 2: NFI New Frontiers, Inc, is leading the drive to conquer space. Overcoming opposition from powerful and jealous nations is only the beginning. What of the alien society that left those mysterious beacons in the asteroid belt? They’re still here, and they’re not happy.... If you liked John Ringo’s Troy Rising trilogy, you’ll enjoy Jack Knapp’s New Frontiers series. Much more action, skullduggery, etc. Plenty of new tech, lots of spying, and back door deals. We may be on the eve of WWIII. Audiobook 3: NEO World War III is about to break out. As if that wasn’t dangerous enough, the enigmatic extraterrestrials called the Flickers have returned with a warning: do not venture beyond the moon. Faced with the ultimate threat, can humanity put aside their differences and unite to face the common danger? Fans of Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and David Weber will enjoy this series. "...a page turner...I was up most of the night." - Blair Howard "A well written book and a great series that grabs your attention and holds it" - CB "It’s such a rare event that a story captures my attention so well that I forget to eat and sleep. The author really understands Geopolitics and human nature" - Kindle Scotty
©2016-present Jack L Knapp (P)2018 Jack L Knapp
The Return: The Darwin's World Series, Book 4
Summary
Life on Earth prime is easy - too easy. There are no challenges, virtually no unrealized desires.
People interact largely through personal communicators, a 25th century version that combines the personal computer and the cell phone. Much of the interaction is done through the worldwide semi-sentient computer net known as Central. Prime's population is declining. The primary cause of death is self-termination. Few children are being born.
The futurists, aided by Central, conceive a desperate gamble: retrieve people from the past, from a time when populations were growing. Reconstitute their failing bodies, then winnow out those who might have the qualities Prime needs. Transplant the selected persons to Earth on a parallel dimension, an ice-age version of Earth where humans didn't survive. This is Darwin's World, a world where survival depends on personal qualities and a certain amount of luck. A world of bloody anarchy, where humans are prey, not predator; a world of not only lions and grizzlies but the even large shortfaced bears, sabertooth cats, and packs of calf-size dire wolves.
The plan is to transplant the survivors to Earth Prime, but there's only one problem: They like it on Darwin's World. Some are willing to visit Prime, but they have no desire to remain. Bear, a child born on Darwin's World, has spent years on Prime, educating himself. Task completed, he intends to return to Darwin's World soon. The futurists, a group on Earth Prime who are attempting to reverse Earth's population decline, ask him to escort two of Earth's few children to Darwin's World, where they'll hopefully pick up the qualities that have disappeared from Earth Prime; ambition, curiosity, determination to survive, and hopefully produce children themselves. But...among the helpers are three sisters. Teenagers, Titian-haired triplets - and trouble. Bear is just what they've been looking for! Poor Bear; you just know he's going to have his hands full!
©2016 Jack L Knapp (P)2019 Jack L Knapp
Combat Wizard
Summary
An experimental training program produces a psychokinetic, a man who can move objects by mental power alone. He has other abilities as well. But is he too powerful? What if the Special Talents decide to go their own way?
©2013 Jack L Knapp (P)2017 Jack L Knapp
Defending Eden
Summary
Humanity faces an enemy from space. Dangerous, to be sure, but behind them is the ultimate enemy. This one threatens not only the people on Prime and Darwin's World, but all humans on all dimensions!
And this enemy is armed with a disintegrator ray that humans have no defense against.
And as usual, humanity is caught off guard. There are few spaceships and even fewer that are suitable for converting to warships.
Humanity does what humans have always done: buy time with blood.
But will even that be enough to delay the oncoming 3,000-ship fleet until Matt and the humans on Prime and Darwin's World can mount an effective defense?
©2018-present Jack L Knapp (P)2019 Jack L Knapp
MARS
Summary
Are the mysterious aliens the solution? Or are they the problem? Immortality? Um...be careful what you wish for! But first, humanity needs to avoid going extinct from the greatest threat they've ever faced....
©2016 Jackie Knapp (P)2018 Jackie Knapp
The Territory
Summary
The New Mexico Territory of the 1870s - 1880s was as wild and dangerous as any part of the American west. Murders were commonplace. Corruption was the norm, and the Santa Fe Ring controlled the courts. Every man went armed and bad whiskey was commonplace, as was over-indulgence. Rustling was, for many, a way of life. But it was a way of life that threatened the honest ranchers and herdsmen of the time. Liam Clancy, Irish immigrant and recently-discharged veteran of the Union Army, had lost his young wife and unborn child to cholera. Grieving, he sold his homestead and headed west. More by accident than design, he ended up in Lincoln County of the territory. This is his story.
©2019 Jack L Knapp (P)2019 Jack L Knapp
Home
Summary
Darwin's World is still a sparsely-settled Eden, but things are beginning to change. Nature is no longer the overwhelming challenge it was before. People are joining with others, towns are being established. But growth leads to conflict. Can Home's residents protect themselves from the slave raiders? Saber-toothed cats, lions, cave bears, dire wolves? Dangerous, to be sure. But humans are still their own worst enemy. Fans of S. M. Sirling, Robert A. Heinlein, and Jean Auel will love this series.
©2015 Jack L Knapp (P)2017 Jack L Knapp
BEMs: Bug Eyed Monsters: Book Four, the New Frontiers Series
Summary
The mysterious species called Flickers are thought to have a base in the outer solar system. A task force is sent to find out. Living in the Kuiper Zone, the Flicker want nothing more than to be left alone. But the solar system belongs to humans. Can the two coexist? Or will history repeat and contact lead to war, as has so often happened in humanity's past? Against a species far more advanced than the beings they call Terrans?
©2017-present Jack L Knapp (P)2018 Jack L Knapp
Siberian Wizard (A Paranormal, ESP Thriller)
Summary
Lost in Siberia, memory gone, what is the Esper called T to do? The time is 1919, late in the Russian revolution, and a few thousand members of the American Expeditionary Force have been sent to Russia. Their task is to hold the Trans-Siberian Railway open long enough for the allied Czech Legion to escape. Short handed, they're happy to enlist the ragged man who remembers his name started with a "T". The Army needs all the help it can get. They're scattered over a wide area and surrounded by enemies. Can T make a difference? And can he find his way back to the future, to the time he came from? Listen now....
©2017 Jack L Knapp (P)2020 Jack L Knapp