This story centers around the ultimatum that aliens from another galaxy deliver to the American president after he & his entourage are kidnapped from Air Force One: "Either accept our proposal for a planned evolution of the human species into less threatening creatures or we will blow up your planet." The stubborn Americans attempt to escape from the aliens & hide out at the Pentagon & other Washington area landmarks, but in the end they are forced to defend the Mississippi River against the aliens who are superior in morals & firepower. Besides this action line, this thought-provoking book provides a moving account of the injustices American settlers committed against Native Americans & outlines how Hispanic Americans will be the torchbearers of a new order. Additionally, this futuristic tale provides glimpses of life in a nine-dimensional universe & new concepts of time & space. Science fiction aficionados will enjoy meeting human's replacement N-man & reveling in details of the magnificient alien spacecraft. RABID BEASTS is available from: Outer Space Press, P.O. Box 2271, Woodbridge, VA 22193.