"What exactly is a Mother?" Mike Wilkins and Jim Parker have to ask this question, for in their 28th century world, women are unknown, children appear seemingly from nowhere, and "fatherhood" is the government-assigned duty of some, but not all, men. They still drive gasoline-powered cars, cigarettes are common, and their guns fire bullets, not laser beams. A man appears with the answer to their question, and the two Army officers find themselves drawn into a conspiracy to expose the hidden history of women. They learn of a man-made biological catastrophe that pitted the sexes against each...