In the future deep space travel is a regular occurrence. After completing a mission to take supplies to Earth 2, or Genesis as the colonists call it, something goes horribly wrong with the space shuttle returning Adam Evans and his crew mates to Earth. The shuttle crashes and Adam and Jason survive, but the Earth they return to has changed greatly.<br><br>When tragedy strikes, leaving Adam on his own, he finds the paradise surrounding him has an increasingly darker side. He assumes he can outsmart it, beat it. The product of a lost past, where men and speech are free, he rebels against the rules restricting him. But is he just setting himself up for failure, for pain and misery? Can he ever hope to outwit the powers that be?<br><br>Then he meets River Boy, the only person in a village full of dirty, animalistic villagers with whom he connects. There is something intelligent about River Boy. Something civilized about him. Yet is Adam’s growing closeness to River Boy going to save him from himself? Or will his stubbornness, his rebelliousness, cost him more than he is able to pay?

Animals

“Look what I’ve got,” shouted Jason from the bank. He was holding aloft a long stick.


“What are you going to do with that?” asked Adam, wading towards him.


“It’s a spear. I figured that since we didn’t have anything to sharpen the tip with, I could just snap it off so that the end would already be sharp.”


“Okay, so you’ve got a spear. What are you going to catch with it?” Adam stepped out of the water, glancing down at his cock as he did so to find that it had gone down considerably. “I haven’t seen any fish.”


Jason patted him on the shoulder. “You just don’t know where to look.”


Adam sat down on the grass at the very edge of the bank and watched Jason wade into the water. For many minutes Jason stood, thigh deep in the lake, waiting. 


“You’ve got more patience than me,” said Adam, pulling on his underpants and grabbing his singlet. “I’m going to scout about for some fruit or berries or something.”


Chapter 4