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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

The Body Snatchers

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      Publisher Orion Publishing Co
      Published 24 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9781399617215
      978-1399617215
      ISBN-10 1399617214
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      Fiction Science Fiction Sci-Fi

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

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