Mostly, I was expecting it to be a bit cheesy.
But I still had some have preconceived ideas of what I’d be getting. Now I’ve heard about the pod people but never seen either film (one came out the month after I was born). This is the first book I’m reading as part of my SF Masterworks Challenge and one that Graeme highly recommended I read. Aliens are taking over the bodies and minds of his friends and neighbours. As the number of similar stories multiples Miles discovers the horrific truth.
From there Miles starts to see the sleepy town of Mill Valley differently. Read moreīecky Driscoll turns up after hours at the consulting rooms of Dr Miles Bennell and tells him that her cousin Wilma doesn’t think that her Uncle Ira is really her Uncle Ira. This repackaged edition features a new cover by Hugo award–winning illustrator, John Picacio and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author, Dean Koontz. Subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, friends, family, the woman he loves, and the entire world as he knows it.įirst published in 1955, this classic science fiction thriller about the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy has inspired multiple film adaptations and entertained readers for decades. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot. On a quiet fall evening in the peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Kaufman here turns in his most Movie Brattish film, but soft-pedals on both his special effects and knowing in-jokiness in a way that puts De Palma to shame even extra bit appearances by Robert Duvall (Kaufman's Jesse James in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid) and Hollywood archivist Tom Luddy are given a nicely take-it-or-leave-it dimension.Celebrate one of the earliest science fiction novels by rediscovering Jack Finney’s internationally acclaimed Invasion of the Body Snatchers-which Stephen King calls a story “to be read and savored for its own satisfactions,” now repackaged with a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. The extraterrestrial pod people now erupt into a world where seemingly everyone is already 'into' changing their lives or lifestyles, and into a cinematic landscape already criss-crossed by an endless series of conspiracies, while the movie has as much fun toying with modern thought systems (psychology, ecology) as with elaborate variations on its predecessor. Though it lacks the awesome allegorical ambiguousness of the 1956 classic of sci-fi/political paranoia (here paid homage in cameo appearances by Kevin McCarthy and Don Siegel), Kaufman and screenwriter WD Richter's update and San Francisco transposition of Jack Finney's novel is a far from redundant remake.
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