The Annals of Adam covers the Lizard Apocalypse from a wide geographical perspective with great accuracy and efficiency. It covers a massive variety of topics, including the Lizard King, Clawsco, the Purge of Learning, Vampire Mike, and co-operative greeting simulator video game High Five 5000 and its role in human-lizard people relations.

The book does not give any indication of the author’s location during the actual events it covers. A popular urban legend spread that Ethan Alden was the author, having a near literal bird’s eye view of the events from aboard MESS, due to being stranded in space during the apocalypse. However, most scholars dismiss this theory as unlikely, highlighting Alden’s limited intelligence. Alden himself has denied authorship, also citing his low intellect. Alden says he would like to write a book someday, but he’d “have to pick a topic somebody dumb as a rock could write about.”

After the Lizard Wars ended, a radical political group called out Stevenson, claiming The Annals of Adam to be “too sympathetic towards those scaley barstads [sic].” A miscommunication about Stevenson living on top of a hill found the protestors picketing the private home of Sarah Michelle Gellar. She appeared on the porch — bewildered — talked down the mob, and sent them home. That afternoon, a spokesperson for Stevenson claimed the author lived, “neither at the top of a hill, nor at the bottom of one.”

The Annals of Adam also gives a brief overview of the complex history of the 11 Great Lizard Houses.