Story added by ltathena on August 11, 2022
Set in the year 2069, a joint European-NASA mission is launched to investigate a newly discovered planet which lies directly opposite Earth on the far side of the Sun. The mission ends in disaster and the death of one of the astronauts, following which his colleague realizes that the planet is a mirror image of Earth in every detail, with a parallel and duplicate timeline. It turns out that the two Earths' respective discoveries of each other have been facilitated by a pair of spontaneous Einstein-Rosen bridge wormholes into parallel timelines. In our Earth where there is a 6 to 5 ratio of men to women, Col. Glenn Ross finds his parallel timeline counterpart is househusband to his astronaut wife Col. Sharon Ross who has crossed the wormhole into his own timeline from a world where the ratio flips around and it is 6 women to 5 men as the exploration of the cosmos going hand in hand with gender roles and historical prejudices could get innocent people killed.
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