By the year 2060, mankind is on the verge of bringing Terra to her knees. The population has exploded, and land for cattle and crops has been sacrificed for housing and employment for the more than fifteen billion souls now living on the planet. Synthetic food is created in plants, and the remaining animals are kept in zoos and game preserves of the wealthy. In an effort to insure the survival of mankind, spaceships are sent to explore Terra’s nearest neighbors, Mars and Venus, but will it be too little too late?<br><br>The four men who took the MRM to Mars have high hopes, until on their return home they travel through a magnetic field that crashes them… somewhere. As they explore the unknown world with its dangers, Doc, Nick, Hank, and Ed will struggle to come to terms with their new reality and find their own paths to happiness.

To Love Through Space and Time

I stared after him thoughtfully. I couldn’t tell him what the government planned to accomplish, not because I didn’t know, but because his security clearance, as high as it was, simply wasn’t high enough. He thought the Argoswould maintain contact with Terra, that the new drives we were testing would enable us to send more colonists after them. But the fact of the matter was once safely beyond Terra’s atmosphere, the Argos’screw would go into suspended animation, except for a select few whose task it was to see the capsules stayed viable. If nothing compatible with human existence was found within the ship’s first year, they would awaken the next rotation and go into suspended animation themselves. And so on, and so on, until, God willing, they found a new Terra.


If the MRVfound nothing but noxious gases, if the MRMwas unsuccessful, then that shipload of colonists would be the last, best hope for the survival of our species.2


“Calling another of your ladies, Dominick?”


Chapter 3