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

“Hey, Doc. You okay?” Nick was using another delicate tool, but his blue eyes were watching me.


“I’m fine, Nick.” Poor boy. He was another who had no one. In spite of all the women he dated, and the men as well—yes, I knew of them, how couldn’t I, when I—I pushed the thought away. Nick was one of the loneliest people I knew.


As for me, although I had my children and grandchildren, they had their own lives, and with Jo gone, I’d dedicated my life to science.


I took my seat and looked through the viewer. Before me, slowly drawing nearer, was the red planet.


Perhaps the last chance for mankind to survive in this galaxy.


“That’s done.” Nick arched his back, put away the tools, and reclined in his seat, the contours molding his well-muscled body. “Y’know what would be too ironic for words?”


“What, Dominick?” Ed obviously didn’t care, but I had a feeling he wanted to get his mind off the wife and children who were forever lost to him.


Chapter 9