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

I grew so used to it that I didn’t notice when it stopped, but Nick did.


“There’s no sound.” He unzipped his jacket pocket and took out his gun.


“Um…I have a suggestion,” Ed said. “And don’t laugh at me.”


“All right, then. I’ve been thinking about that…that lion. Suppose at one point in Terra’s history, aliens landed and took specimens?”


“You mean like those people coming over the rise?” Hank offered.


“What? No! I knew you were—oh, fuck.”


“Doc?” Nick had his gun cocked and ready.


“Let’s wait and see what they do.” It was still cool, but we’d worked up a sweat walking all this way, and the hoods of our jackets were down. At least they would see we were like them to a degree.


The people approaching us were dressed in animal skins, tawny like the lion’s, or possibly deer, although we hadn’t seen anything like them. Both men and women had bows and quivers of arrows slung across their backs, and they all carried spears and knives.


Chapter 24