Compelled to search for his half brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.
Describes the simple and useful artifacts developed by prehistoric man which led to the production of a food surplus--the first cultural triumph of mankind that made possible the further development of civilization.
As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.
