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

“Are you insane, old man?” Hank’s tone was strident. I understood his distress and didn’t begrudge him his offensive words. “My wife, my children…they grew old and died centuries ago! How can it get any worse than that?”


Nick got in his face. “You want to know how it could be worse, Janes? Think of this—Armageddon could have happened two hours after we lifted off from Mars.”


Hank turned white. “When we lost contact with White Sands?”


Nick nodded. “When we lost contact with White Sands.”


“I’m sorry, Hank,” I said. “I had family, too, and I know how hard it is for you, but I’d rather my loved ones lived on, even though it was without me, than that they were incinerated in a goddamned stupid war that no one wanted but no one had the intelligence to prevent!”


“Would mankind really have been that stupid?” Ed demanded, and then he covered his face with his palm. “What am I saying? They were.”


Chapter 36