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

“You…you—” She slammed the phone down.


I winced and gingerly hung up the receiver. This latest trend, swinging back to old-fashioned telephones, had to have been dreamed up by women for the satisfaction of slamming the receiver on a hapless lover.


“Well, that didn’t go too badly.” Ed sat there grinning at my misfortune, and I gave him an injured look.


“You think this is easy?” I drew a line through Jennifer’s name and then dialed the last number. “You try using the same hokey excuse to cancel four…uh…three dates you made for the same night.”


“It’s not an excuse if it’s the truth, Dominick.”


“You think they care?” Or believed me? “Not in this lifetime, pal. Now shut up and let me deal.” Eight rings and nothing. Where the hell was Barb? If she didn’t answer, I’d have to leave a message, and I didn’t want to do that if I could help it. It was cold.


Chapter 4