Escape from Mercury is a science-fiction story about a secretive NASA mission to the planet Mercury, what the astronauts find at its shadowy north pole, and what they must do to reach Earth again. The book portrays an alternate history of America from the 1960's to the 1980's in which NASA's Apollo program does not end shortly after the Lunar landings but continues and expands with new missions to other planets in the Solar system. Escape from Mercury is a surreal space Western that combines period-specific Apollo program technologies with dark theology, musical metaphysics, and the psychology of dreaming.