The Body Snatchers
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The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes Earth being invaded by seeds which have drifted to Earth from space. The seeds take over human bodies and replace them with simulations grown from plantlike pods, perfect physical duplicates who kill and dispose of their human victims.
Unlike the four film adaptations to date, the novel contained the optimistic ending. Bennell and Driscoll barely escape Santa Mira, where they witness more pods falling from the sky. Just as they lose all hope, the pods suddenly uproot themselves and fly back into space. The aliens were unable to tolerate the resistance that Bennell displayed, so they give up on their invasion and continue on their parasitic quest for survival. Though the danger to mankind is over, Bennell and Driscoll are left to wonder if Santa Mira will be the same now.
[edit] First edition
- Finney, Jack. The Body Snatchers. New York : Dell, c1955
[edit] See Also
[edit] Adaptations
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Body Snatchers (1993)
- The Invasion (2007)
