The body snatchers - Jack Finney

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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.


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