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The Body Snatchers
Jack Finney
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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
"About Time" offers a delightful return to the world of time travel
and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic
"Time and Again." The protagonists of these twelve stories are
well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives.
The time to which they escape--through time travel--doesn't always
fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but
sometimes, they can still find their dreams.
Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has
outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or
the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of
paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'. Most people
know the story from seeing THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, the
classic 1978 remake (one of the few Hollwood remakes said to better
than the original, made in 1956) starring Donald Sutherland. Here's
your chance to read the original source; a story that has resonated
with readers and viewers for more than 50 years.
The New York Times Bestseller -- Jack Finney's long-awaited sequel to his classic illustrated novel Time and Again. Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic.
Si Morley is bored with his job as a commercial illustrator and his
social life doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So, when he is
approached by an affable ex-football star and told that he is just
what the government is looking for to take part in a top-secret
programme, he doesn't hesitate for too long. And so one day Si
steps out of his twentieth-century, New York apartment and finds
himself back in January 1882. There are no cars, no planes, no
computers, no television and the word 'nuclear' appears in no
dictionaries. For Si, it's very like Eden, somewhere he could find
happiness. But has he really been back in time? The portfolio of
tintype photographs and sketches that he brings back convince the
government. But all Si wants is to return ...
August 17th 2007 Movie Release: On a quiet fall evening in the
small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell
discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost
imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and
minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved
-- the world as he knew it.
This handsome new book combines three Finney favorites in an
omnibus edition that brilliantly displays his bold and unmistakable
imagination. Certain to delight anyone with a penchant for
penetrating imaginary realms of science fiction, fantasy, and
adventure.
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