The Ancient ADAM PDF Print E-mail
Written by Roger Born   
This is to introduce a major novel by a seasoned writer. ADAM is a new and sweeping Epic, which easily equals the majestic scope and beauty of The Lord of the Rings in all its power and grandeur. ADAM is the timely telling of the First Man, as is recorded in Genesis, and his story is about enduring Hope and Love in a world falling into chaos.
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Since Adam is called a type of Christ, and because Jesus 'Does All Things Well,' I made the cryptic Adam to be like the man he modeled. Therefore, Adam becomes a Priest, a King, and a Prophet during his long lifetime. I also made him the seminal discoverer, and the inventor of most Everything, from written language to architecture, law, science and mathematics. What else would you expect from a man who was never born, but created fully grown, and who daily walked and conversed with his Creator? Adam was the first Father of Man, who loved and taught all his children well, and because of that, he eventually came to rule his world. It is also written that Adam lived 930 years.

Yet as the First Man, who called himself the Son of God, he was almost completely unknown to the people of his world. It is said of that generation of men that they did not believe in God, but believed that Man alone was supreme in the world, and that he had always been on the Earth. A view not much different from that of today's world.

I learned that all the best and most original stories start with Adam, and that they are all epic in scope: Love, mystery, sacrifice, violence, daring rescue, brilliant victory, catharsis, humor, and redemption. This is because Adam is our Primal Father, and his life was rich in power and experience, almost beyond imagination. Therefore, Adam really is the source of all those stories we love, and we find our own story in his.

At the beginning, I discovered the events leading to the Fall of Man turn out to be a wondrous Love Story, for it says in Scripture that, “Eve was tempted, but Adam was not.” The questiom became, "then why did he eat of that Tree?" Thus I began what would soon grow into one of the best novels ever written. (Not because I wrote it, but because I uncovered his remarkable story.)

As I wrote, I really enjoyed discovering the rules of a how a world and a civilization would come to be. I researched what their laws and customs would have been, how they likely lived their daily lives, and what inventions they would logically need to create in order to survive. The first couple start their new lives in a pleasant mountain river valley a few weeks travel East of Eden, after they were cast out of the garden. Their family soon grows and in a few hundred years becomes a flood of mankind pouring into the wide world beyond, which to my mind was actually a large and unexplored single continent.

Our couple eventually make their own journey into that New Earth. Out there, as I said, people did not believe in the First Man, nor in the Creator. Because of this, Adam changes his name to Atla (Atlas?), which is another name for Man. You be the judge about whether that was a good or necessary thing for him to have done, but in that process Adam becomes the original Invisible Man, complete with a dual identity.

Out in the world, they encounter and overcome great kings whose kingdoms are built on cruel force and slavery. They meet the mysterious and powerful Nephilim, Leviathans (dragons), Demons who live in the sky and on mountain tops, as well as all manner of treachery and intrigue.

Adam, in order to help his children, becomes their king in his 500th year. By wisdom and kindness his kingdom grows, and he becomes the first, and most beloved Emperor of the whole continent, Atlandus, which is named in his honor. As his Empire prospers, he sees his civilization grow amazingly advanced. Adam becomes the first Lawgiver, helping to create that first wonderful and transcendent Century of Man, freeing all his children at last from war and slavery, as he rules from his legendary pyarmidal city on the Euphrates river.

Then comes a great war with the near mythical Nephilim, and a foreboding meeting with Lucifer. Soon after, a Coup causes Adam and Eve to flee their empire secretly, disguised as beggars. Free at last from their rulership, they begin to explore the great enigmatic continent. Along the way they encounter strange new sights, great world wonders, unusual beings, exotic animals, and illuminating discoveries in that primal and verdant New Earth, and they have historic and fateful meetings with the ancient Cain, the godly Enoch, and a fearful and phobic Methuselah, the grandfather of Noah.

In their 800th year, the aging married couple return to their pleasant valley, now abandoned and in ruins. Eve dies there at the stone house he had built for her, five hundred years earlier. This beautiful and poetic Love Scene, involving a rose, is the model for all the great future scenes of Human Love, Legend, and Fairy Tales, and one which you will never forget.

The rest of the story, how Adam ends up as an ancient, unknown Prophet, standing almost alone against the coming anarchy, violence and moral darkness of his world, is an Epic on its own right. In the end, he sadly but joyfully faces death among his children, nailed to a tree by people who have become little more than illiterate and pagan savages.

Then, comes a most amazing and uplifting Ending!


I am a retired college professor, (some say, an incurable romantic) and I have taught Critical Thought in most all my classes. Therefore, my task in researching this Epic was to arrive at a logical and coherent story that is both realistic and credible, as well as being literally faithful to the text. I think this is very likely the way Adam would have lived out his life, given what little we know about him. I wonder if after you read this rather short novel you would not also agree?

In the two years I spent writing and researching Adam, I discovered that there are NO fictional works about him at all! Therefore this is the FIRST novel to be written about the First Man and the First Earth. That by itself is sort of amazing. This novel is not quite something new under the sun, but it may come close.

ADAM is meant to be a popular fiction rather than a religious one. Although God is mentioned, and is an integral character in the story, there is no particular denominational emphasis. However, this story of Adam has the best and most universal plot appeal of the Gospel, You might question this idea, but think about all those blockbuster movies from Spielberg, Cameron, and others, and you will see the Gospel elements in their stories, which is why they are so wonderfully memorable. I hope you enjoy reading ADAM as much as I did writing it!

NOTE: Is Atlandus the great civilization that Plato wrote about? We know that later, Adam’s wonderful kingdom became corrupt, and that it all died suddenly in a great flood. The historical parallels are uncanny. You can decide this issue as you read the book.

I am giving a free paper copy of ADAM to any editor or agent who Emails me their request. You are welcome to either the electronic book, at the link below, or a properly formatted and boxed paper Manuscript. I am actively looking for a publisher for this work, or for someone who is interested in making a movie of this most wonderful and amazing story. Email me for a free copy.

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