more jumps forward and back across the bio engineered apocalypse, this time with the survivors - Gardeners, Maddaddam gamers, Crakers (engineered idealised humans) and renegade Painballers - and throw in some intelligent pigs... 
 back story focuses on Zeb and his relationship with abusive father and his brother Adam 
 much more seems to happen in the backstory than the current. 
 ideas and characters develop as we go along