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

“Oh! This is wonderful. Smell that air.”


I let out the breath I was holding and gave him a shove. “You could have poisoned us all.” I refrained from calling him a stupid son of a bitch, but only just.


“But I didn’t.” He grinned at me over his shoulder, then turned his head and took another deep breath.


After the stale, recycled oxygen of the Emmy, we became almost drunk on the cold breeze that blew into the cabin. The scents it carried were vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t quite think what they reminded me of.


“All right, then. Let’s get some warm clothes on,” Doc said. “It’s cold out there. Nick, the Geiger counter? We’ll need to know what the radiation count is on this planet.”


“I’m on top of it, Doc.” I opened the storage hatch and pulled out four cases, then found something that shocked me so much I toppled back on my ass. “Uh…Doc, you want to explain this?”


Chapter 17