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 know. Tony liked to talk about how when you told him Josie was in the hospital with the babies, he’d said he couldn’t wait to see her so he could tell her she’d had a boy and a girl.” He laughed, but there was sorrow in it. His own family had treated him so poorly.


“I registered to father a baby. As a single dad, I had to sign over the rest of the little wigglers in that batch, but I didn’t care.” There was a sheen of tears in his eyes. “I sat in that goddamned waiting room, and then that nurse came out and…Y’know something, Doc? Finding out who had gotten my girlfriend pregnant wasn’t half as bad as learning why I hadn’t gotten Elaine pregnant. The mumps did it; I can never father a child.”


Chapter 28