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

“Fine.” Ed sat in his seat and swiveled it to face his instrument panel. “Strap in, everyone. Except you, Marsham. It would be just fine with me if you beat your brains out against the hull.”


“Enough!” Doc was getting pissed, and I kept my mouth shut and went to my station. “Now as I was saying, once we’re out of Mars’s atmosphere, I’ll want that one final orbit, and then, Hank, if you’ll plot the coordinates, Ed can set the course for Terra.”


Ed bent over his equipment, and we strapped in for liftoff.


“You okay, Doc?” We were out of the exosphere, but I thought he was looking a little pale


Before I could challenge him on that, Hank finished what he was doing, handed off his coordinates to Ed, then turned to me and said, “Contact Terra for me, would you, Nick?” It was easy to see he was excited about the prospect of leaving this last orbit and heading home.


Chapter 14