FINCH.DLOS@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (02/04/84)
I have been looking for a book that I read in the 60's (I think it was 63 or 64). I don't remember the author or the title but I am hoping someone can help me out. I would like to find it and read it again. It starts with a woman riding a bus when suddenly she can read other peoples thoughts. She is amazed by this but it doesn't last long. In the next few days the ability seems to turn on and off as if a switch was thrown. Later in the book we find out that 20 some years previously some aliens landed on earth and did something to several hundred pregnant women so their children would have esp and all the classical mental abilities, but only if certain radiation was present. Naturally they had transmitters to transmit this radiation. These aliens by nature were cowards and they wanted to counquer the earth. But being cowards, they could not bring themselves to do any violent acts so when the children were born they kidnapped them and raised them on the moon. Somehow they missed the protagonist and she was left to save the world. The aliens kept the boys and the girls separate and ignorant of each other. Different radiation controlled each. They had hundreds of boys and a lot fewer girls. Their plan was to send the boys down to conquer the earth and kill all humans then send the girls down later when the boys transmitter was turned off and let them kill the boys. Then the aliens could take over. Seems strange not to remember the title at least after all that, but that's the way it is. Jim Finch Xerox, Dallas