Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionMill Valley Marin County California. Dr Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a patient who claims her Uncle isnt himself. Hes 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 replicatedAdapted 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 KingWill chill you straight to the marrow - Galaxy Science FictionIntensely readable and unpredictably ingenious - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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