The Fourth Beginning
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Following the death of their daughter Bella in a freak accident, Adam and Eve Smith are given the opportunity by the Storyteller to seek answers to some fundamental existential questions. Despite the risks and dangers, Adam and Eve, together with their unbelievably intelligent dog, Luke, decide to set out on a journey with the Storyteller in the Storyteller’s yellow camper van.Adam and Eve, joined, after a chance meeting at Fleet services on the M3, by the insatiably curious Rambler and his mentally challenged nephew Numpty, soon find their search is to be impeded by Grimrose, a shapeshifter, and his master, the Breaker, Nick Peters, who tells the questors they are wasting their time.The questors first excursion is to the Garden of Eden, near Hook off the A31, where they are granted an audience with God. Things do not go well. Eve alienates God who decides to impose a terrible punishment on the questors, a punishment from which they are saved only by the intervention of a blind traveller, Kit, whom God wrongly believes is his long lost son. While in Eden, the questors visit one of Eden’s industrial estates where they meet Rodney and Derek, two angels who constitute God’s R and D department. Rodney and Derek fill the questors in on how the universe and humanity was created.On leaving Eden, the questors travel in the camper van, equipped with a paradox device and an exponential drive, to Mount Strobilos in the Caucasus of some thousands of years ago, where they are hospitably entertained by the titan Prometheus who gives them his version of the birth and destiny of man. While there, Nick Peters makes a determined effort to persuade the questors to abandon their quest. When Adam and Eve reject his advice, he warns them he will destroy them.The Storyteller now conducts the questors on three excursions to witness three great beginnings: the creation of the universe; the birth of life; and the emergence of
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