Professor Adrian Savage is a scientist, physician, inventor, explorer, and one of the Guardians of Tomorrow—a remarkable band of heroes whose courage, discoveries, and ideals will help shape the century to come.

It is 1897, and Adrian is already a legend in academic and scientific circles. Based at Columbia University, where his expeditions bring prestige, rare discoveries, and generous patrons, Professor Savage divides his life between lecture halls, private laboratories, distant ruins, dangerous journeys, and mysteries polite society would rather leave unexplained. Brilliant, warm, bold, and deeply introspective, Adrian is as comfortable debating a scholar as he is crossing a mountain pass or confronting a criminal mastermind.

One day, Adrian Clark Savage will become the father of Doc Savage, the extraordinary Man of Bronze. But that future has not begun yet.

For now, this is Adrian’s story.

Travel with Professor Savage through the closing years of the nineteenth century—an age of steam, telegraph wires, daring science, lost expeditions, strange inventions, hidden places, and adventures waiting beyond the edge of the known world.