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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

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

Über den Autor
Born in 1911 the American author Jack Finney wrote numerous SF novels, thrillers and mysteries, several of which were adapted to film. He is best known as the author of The Body Snatchers, which became the hugely popular and influential film, The Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. He was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1987. A long time resident of Californa he died in 1995.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: S. F. Masterworks
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781399617215
ISBN-10: 1399617214
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Finney, Jack
Hersteller: Orion Publishing Group
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Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 223 x 127 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Jack Finney
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,22 kg
Artikel-ID: 126643448

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