In the first four installments of the Future Perfect series, thirteen-year-old Logan Doss traveled to Israel with his mother, Lois Doss, an accomplished archaeologist, to study newly discovered evidence of ancient life. This evidence was found inside a cave on an island that had recently resurfaced during an earthquake in the Mediterranean Sea. Because of strange magnetic readings coming from a large rock formation inside the cave, world-renowned physicist Dr. Rudy Geiger was also called in to investigate. Tragedy struck the night Dr. Geiger arrived. As Lois was showing Dr. Geiger and his assistant around the cave, another earthquake struck, and the rock formation Dr. Geiger was sent to investigate began to pulse with radiant light. Before the earthquake subsided, Dr. Geiger and Logan were thrown into the glow of the stone structure and vanished. Dr. Geiger’s assistant sent a robotic probe into the strange phenomenon, and it too disappeared.
Dazed, Logan found he had been transported thousands of years into the past, where he encountered a famous, mysterious prophet named Enoch. Together with Enoch’s grandson Lamech, Logan was able to escape capture by Tubal-Cain, a leader of the intelligent, ruthless Cainite clan. Logan found many amazing differences between the earth he knew and the one into which he had fallen. Both the earth’s atmosphere and humanity were different. Instead of rain, water rising from the ground, called the mists, bathed the land with moisture. The planet appeared to be much more protected from the harmful rays of the sun. Perhaps because of these and other differences, humans aged at a much slower rate, so that people who looked thirty years old by modern standards might be more than two hundred years old in the Ancient world. People also seemed to be able to access more parts of their brains than is common in the modern world. Some even possessed unique abilities called Gifts. A Gift might be the ability to project one’s thoughts or even to read minds. Other people, such as Lamech, had the ability to fight with profound speed and accuracy.
For the first few weeks after being transported, Logan lived peacefully in Enoch’s city of Parvaim, learning the Ancient world’s customs and history, including how the sons of Adam had begun to spread out and inhabit the world. Logan’s time in Parvaim was cut short when agents of Tubal-Cain kidnapped him and took him to an outpost just outside the Tortured Mists, an unstable area where the natural mists of the world turned violent and dangerous. Having been warned in a vision, Enoch sent Lamech to follow and rescue young Logan from his captors. During his rescue attempt, Lamech burned down the outpost but got lost with Logan inside the Tortured Mists. Through a series of miraculous events, Lamech and Logan found their way into a land hidden deep within the Tortured Mists. In this land, called Pellios, the two travelers found the remnants of the Line of Zirci, who, forced into the Tortured Mists by the Line of Cain, had been left for dead. By God’s grace, they had survived and even flourished in their new home. However, the Zirci’s days were numbered. With only one exception, no children had been born to the Zirci for more than two centuries. That one exception was a young woman named Bete, who befriended Logan and Lamech.
After several months of recuperation, Lamech returned to his people while Logan remained among the Zirci. For thirty years he learned from them the skills and knowledge he would need to survive in the Outside World of Men. These decades were important not only to Logan but also to other forces in the Ancient world who had designs on the future.
At the conclusion of this time, Enoch sent Lamech to retrieve Logan in order for him to attend a Firstborn Council set to take place in the port city of Adoraim. During their journey, the two travelers encountered a precocious young man named Hemeth, who had found himself caught in one of Tubal-Cain’s grand schemes. After helping him escape, Logan and Lamech had to flee with him from pursuing Cainite warriors and were saved only by the last-minute intervention of Enoch. Once inside Adoraim, Logan, Lamech, and Hemeth found themselves in the middle of an inter-line conflict and had to defend themselves in the Council of the Firstborns. While the members of the Firstborn Council were occupied with their deliberations, Tubal-Cain took matters into his own hands and brutally assaulted Lamech using his powerful Gift of the Mind. While Lamech was trapped within Tubal-Cain’s mental grasp, Hemeth stumbled into this mental connection and found that although he was a Lowborn, his mind was every bit a match for Tubal-Cain’s. In rescuing Lamech, Hemeth created and trapped Tubal-Cain in a mental labyrinth and left the Cainite to find his own way out. Disgraced and humiliated, Tubal-Cain was stripped of his title of “Firstborn,” and his half brother Jubal took his place.
After the assault on Lamech, the Firstborn Council, unsure how to proceed without war erupting, sent the three young men to the island of Atalànt, where they were to seek an audience with Adam, the Created One. Despite last-minute resistance from Cainite factions and their allies, the three weary travelers succeeded in boarding the ship Tomorrow’s Destiny, commanded by its young captain, Lubin, and set sail for the mysterious island of Atalànt.
On Atalànt, Logan was able to free Adam, the Created One, from the dark forces that held him bound. Through the power of the Spirit of God, Logan banished the dark forces to the arid places of the earth. While on Atalànt, Hemeth was adopted by an Elder Born kinsman named Gallios, who raised him like a son and nurtured his powerful Gift of the Mind.
Meanwhile, Tubal-Cain was met by a mysterious woman who counseled him to return to the Sacred Cave to receive something that would come to him there. When he arrived, Dr. Rudy Geiger came through the door from the future. Seizing his opportunity, Tubal-Cain took Dr. Geiger and acclimated him to the Ancient world. In the process, Tubal-Cain gained control of the probe Dr. Geiger had created. This probe, though harmless in the future, had detrimental effects on Ancient humans. Tubal-Cain used his new weapon to subdue his half brother Jubal and reclaim his title as Firstborn.
The opening of this story takes place eight years before the ending events of The Journal of Rudy Geiger and is told from a very different point of view.
And so the story continues.