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

Shit. I’d obviously misread the signals. Oh, well; win some, lose some.


There were some sandwiches laid out on the table, and I snatched one before one of the APs could get to it. They could have left us more.


“Rest of what, Doc?” I checked out the map. “And what’s with the lower altitude thing?”


He smiled at me. I liked Dr. Van Allyn. He was a widower, and when his son Tony had brought home a skinny, beat-up fifteen-year-old—”He followed me, Dad. Can I keep him?”—he and his wife had treated me with kindness, something my own parents had never done. Tony and I had been friends for twenty years, and Doc and I…Well, I liked him.


And I could see he wasn’t going to answer my question. I took an absentminded bite of the sandwich and had to fight to keep from spitting it out. The bread was dry and the lunch meat tasted like cardboard. Whoever had made these could have done a better job.


Chapter 6