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
