When an advanced alien species offers the human
race the secrets behind universal space travel, mankind
jumps at the offer in this thrilling sci-fi tale of ambition
gone awry. What had been humanity's hope for the most
advanced starship ever created soon turns to
disaster—military task forces, mutiny, and meteor showers
all combine in forcing the ship, and the crew of 275 humans
frozen in suspended animation, to return to Earth. But what
awaits them back home—humans who have regressed to
Neanderthal status that are now subservient to genetically
enhanced crocodiles—is nothing like they ever
imagined.