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The Body Snatchers

Jack Finney

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English
Hachette
31 October 2023
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
Mill Valley, Marin County, California.

Dr

Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a

patient who claims her Uncle isn't himself. He's a different person,

despite being identical in every way except one: he is only pretending

to have emotions.

Miles dismisses this as delusions and refers her to a psychiatrist.

Then

he finds the pods. Giant seed pods, filled with a strange, grey

substance. A strange grey substance that can slowly, slowly, become a

perfect replica of a person.

But what has happened to the people being replicated?

Adapted for screen multiple times, The Body Snatchers

is the origin of the phrase 'pod people', and a staple of pulp science

fiction. Read by many as an allegory for the Cold War, or McCarthyism,

it perfectly encapsulates the paranoia that comes with not knowing who

around you can be trusted.

'A good story, to be read and savoured' - Stephen King

'Will chill you straight to the marrow' - Galaxy Science Fiction

'Intensely readable and unpredictably ingenious' - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
By:  
Imprint:   Hachette
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   210g
ISBN:   9781399617215
ISBN 10:   1399617214
Series:   S.F. Masterworks
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Born in 1911, the American author Jack Finney wrote numerous SF novels, thrillers and mysteries, several of which were adapted to film. He was awarded the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT in 1987. A long-time resident of California, he died in 1995.

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