Mars Needs Women
Summer, 1968. America's top scientific minds gather in Houston at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters after receiving an urgent call from their nation's leaders. Taken to an office backroom where armed guards stand vigilant outside the doors, the who's who of researchers, professors, and doctors are told of a radio transmission intercepted and translated by NASA just a few hours ago. A message only three words long, sent by Earth's next door neighbor: "Mars needs women." As military personnel begin planning for a potential invasion, among the stunned and silent scientists in the small boardroom sits one Doctor Marjorie Bolen, one of the nation's leading experts in genetics. In the long days that followed, a string of kidnappings swept across Texas like a wind. Women from all walks of life were vanishing in the night without a trace. While the public ran wild with conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, only a s...