A/N: Hi!

I realise I haven't written anything in donkey's years, but I have a good reason. For many months now, I've had ideas for stories not at all linked to Firefly. This was one of them.

Here's the premise: Sometime in the late 24th-25th Century, the world was plunged into a nuclear war. This story is set several hundred years after the war, and is about a group of survivors who...well, you'll know if I post another chapter on here.

The point is, I'm trying to write this as a serious novel, inspired by things like Halo and the Hungry Cities Chronicles by Phillip Reeve. I've only posted the prologue because I wanted to see what people thought. I might post it a couple other places too.

Anyhow, enjoy, and don't forget to tell me what you think!

The BrainSpecialist.

In response to some confusion, the reason I posted this was because I believed that the people that watched Firefly would be the kind of people who would read this. Also, because I was bored.

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Reading from the original edition of the Book of Things Past ,

Chapter 1:7

And so man turned upon himself, brandishing instruments of death

In the name of mortal gods. Using these weapons, the children of man

Brought destruction upon their own. The survivors, the Second Genesis,

Began life afresh, the world cleansed once more of evil and wrong-doing.

Chapter 1:8

But, alas, where man thrives, so do the seeds of evil, corruption, and

Betrayal that follow in His wake. They fought amongst themselves for

Many decades, and would yet be fighting still, if the leaders of mankind

Hadn’t forsaken their brethren, and written the Constitution of New London.

Chapter 1:9

The shattered, radioactive London began its steady climb uphill, until

The Schism that split London into many factions, some fleeing to supposed

Safety in the Tube Network, and are said to have been driven mad by spirits.

Some fled to more secure Underground stations and repurposed them, while-

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