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

Deen glanced toward his mother. “He wants to see you again, too.”


Zelle blushed. “I would have returned with him, but it isn’t permitted.”


“Well, I’m glad you were with the Crins so we could meet young Deen,” Hank assured her.


“So am I,” Nick said, ruffling the boy’s ink-black hair.


I was glad, too. Deen was a smart kid, a good traveling companion, and a skilled hunter, even at his young age. His mom had taught him well.


Deen was right about the direction we should go in. Not more than a mile further on, the air began to shimmer in front of the rocky face of a large hill.


“That’s not from the heat.” I pulled Nicky up beside me and gestured toward it.


Abruptly, the shimmer vanished as what seemed to be a doorway opened in the side of the hill and a man dressed in white appeared. He was too tall to be Deen’s father.


“I bid you welcome, visitors from the past.”


“How did he know that?” Ed scowled.


Chapter 40