Twelve minutes to Mars. James Hayden has a dream, and the Riggs test vehicle is going to take him there. But when failure after failure leads to his last chance exploding spectacularly, he must partner with an AI and gamble everything for one last shot at the stars. 43 Seconds is a science fiction short story set in the Hayden's World universe. The story can be read in twenty minutes and is the perfect size for reading on the go.