New Space

In the usual textbooks, we are told we know who Nikola Tesla really was, but we are only told that he discovered the principle for alternating current (the ordinary AC electricity in your home). What we are not told is that Tesla also carried out experiments and devised plans for inventions not only ahead of their time, but which would also - even today - be considered "science fiction".

In this classic of the UFO literature pantheon, Helen and Betty Mitchell are approached by humanoid space aliens at a coffee shop in St. Louis, Missouri, in the late 1950s. Taught how to communicate with the space people from Mars and Venus, they receive messages from their new friends. Finally, they are taken on a spaceship voyage. This is the account of their experiences and the messages they were given by the aliens: Abolish nuclear weapons, create educational television programming, and become vegetarians, or possibly face extinction.