Operation Elbow Room: An Interplanetary Ecofiction by Joseph Phillips

Description

In the early years of the 21st century, overpopulation and depleted terrestrial resources have made operation elbow room, the colonization of mars, a reality.

The spaceships have landed, the biospheres have been built, and the first extra-terrestrial colony is nearly ready for its first residents. But a wrench is thrown in the colonist's military backed plan when they encounter The Tribe, a rocklike lifeform with an agenda of its own and the ability to reduce the human mind to a state of helpless, childlike innocence.