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Genesis

HUMANITY'S ONLY HOPE OF SURVIVAL

The human race is running out of time on overcrowded Earth, and only one man has the courage

to do what is necessary to save it. Colony ship Ark is the greatest project the human race will ever

attempt, a self-contained world one hundred years in the building, launched on a ten thousand

year voyage to carry the seeds of civilization to the stars. It is humanity's final gamble for escape

from a desperate world, but the price of hope is measured in lives.

Joshua Crewe , Ark's designer. Obsessed with his vision, he's devoted his life to winning the

power to turn it into reality. No burden is too great to bear in pursuit of his dream—especially

when other people are the ones to bear it.

Aurora Brady , first of the space-born, with one foot in the future and one in the past. She must

give power to her enemies to see Ark launched, but giving too much will mean its destruction.

Jedidiah Fourgere , a simple farm boy. He finds himself caught up in a revolution that will

forever change the balance of power in Ark's hermetically sealed world. Torn between love and

faith, humanity's future lies in his hands.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Chafe was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1965. He is an infantry officer in the Canadian

Forces Reserve, has served with four regiments, and has one son, Christian, who is 12. He has

been a frequent contributor to the Man-Kzin Wars series, including his recent novel for Baen,

Destiny's Forge . His website is available at http://paulchafe.com .

Cover Art by David Mattingly

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ORDER Hardcover

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5509-4

ISBN-10: 1-4165-5509-9

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and

events portrayed in this book are fictional, and

any resemblance to real people or incidents is

purely coincidental.

reproduce this book or portions thereof in any

form.

First printing, November 2007

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Data

Chafe, Paul, 1965–

Genesis / Paul Chafe.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-4165-5509-9 (hc)

1. Interplanetary voyages—Fiction. 2. Space

ships—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.4.C44G46 2007

813'.6—dc22

2007030471

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Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)

Printed in the United States of America

For Christian

For more on the Ark project visit

http://projectark.net

Baen Books by Paul Chafe

Destiny's Forge

Genesis

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Prelude

Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven.

—Genesis 1:14

L–135

Crockery smashed downstairs and angry voices came down the corridor. Josh Crewe woke, eyes staring

at the darkened ceiling, afraid. He swallowed hard and listened, carefully gauging the swell of the fight

as his parents savaged each other with accusation and recrimination. He didn't understand the words but

he didn't need to. What was important was their intensity. If the fight grew bad enough there would be

footsteps on the stairs and the lights in his room would snap on so Mother could drag him out of bed to

use as a living example of his father's failures before God and man. It would mean no sleep, perhaps

getting smacked in the face by his father when the hurt and humiliation finally overcame the man and he

lashed out himself. That was minor. Father's anger came and went with a single blow, predictable and so

not dangerous, however painful. It was Mother who really scared him. Once she had nearly drowned

him in a scalding-hot bath because he'd tracked mud into the hallway, another time she'd made him

kneel in the gravel driveway all night, praying for forgiveness for bringing a toy to church. Mother was

unpredictable, and therefore dangerous.

The voices rose higher and more crashing came from downstairs. He slipped out of bed and dressed

himself, quickly and quietly, then went to the hot-air register beneath the window and removed the

grille. He snaked an arm down the vent; the fit was almost too tight now that he was twelve. An adult

wouldn't have been able to do it, which is why he used it as his secret hiding place.

He'd grown, and his biceps caught painfully on the sharp-edged metal before his fingers found what he

was looking for. He stretched, feeling the metal dig in and ignoring the hurt until he touched something

—the end cap of a prescription medicine bottle. He teased it closer with his fingertips until he could grab

the bottle and drew his arm out. The bottle was transparent plastic, one of many kicking around the

house that bore the white sticky label reading Crewe, Evylin, Primodone, 50mg 3x daily. It was stuffed

full of money, coins and bills. He had hoarded it carefully, some saved from his allowance, when his

parents remembered to give it to him, more stolen a bit at a time from his mother's cigarette money. His

emergency fund.

And the emergency was now. He took a pair of packed book bags from beneath a pile of clothes in the

mess that was his closet, picked up his shoes and padded across the hall to his sister's room. She was

sound asleep. "Susie." He shook her. "Susie, wake up."

She stirred and her eyes opened. He saw in her face the immediate recognition of the situation. "Are we

going outside again?"

Josh nodded. "Yes." He didn't tell her the whole plan.

She nodded and dressed without words, tension in her face as the shouting downstairs grew louder. They

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