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 was riding with Lish again. “Get Rill over to Van Allyn.” I knew the shit was about to hit the fan. Easy was our leader, and he’d have to take the fallout, but he wasn’t going to take it alone.


With a nudge with his knee, Lish had the elephant moving.


“I’m sorry,” Easy was saying to Ed and Hank. “I hadn’t wanted to face it, but unless we buy into Ed’s alien-abduction theory…”


Easy had talked about it, and if he believed it, then I was pretty much ready to believe it also, especially considering what we’d found here: people who were like us down to ten fingers and toes and a belly button, and who spoke a language so similar to our own, we’d been able to understand them after only a week or so…


Meanwhile, Easy continued to voice his hypothesis. “…or explain the presence of lions and elephants? This is Terra. Hundreds of years beyond our time, but…” His shoulders slumped.


I reached across to touch his shoulder. “It’s not your fault.”


Chapter 33