![]() Even when adapted as a movie in 1956, it was following Jack Arnold’s It Came From Outer Space (1953) in employing the theme of people in a small town replaced by alien doppelgangers. Dick had already explored very similar notions. ![]() The Body Snatchers was received harshly by some science fiction writers and critics as a variation on an already well-worn idea: Robert Heinlein and Philip K. He wrote many crime stories, some of which were also adapted as films, including Phil Karlson’s 5 Against The House (1955), although his biggest publishing success was the 1970 time travel tale Time And Again. Finney, a former copywriter and journalist, became adept at writing in many a genre with the discipline of a shrewd professional. ![]() Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers began life as a serialised story in Colliers Magazine and was published as a novel in 1955. Sometimes I think we’re refining all humanity out of our lives. ![]() ![]() In my father’s day a night operator, whose name he’d have known, could have told him who’d called…But now we have dial phones, marvelously efficient, saving you a full second or more every time you call, inhumanly perfect, and utterly brainless and none of them will ever remember where the doctor is at night, when a child is sick and needs him. I said, “Hello!” again, a little louder, jiggling the phone, the way you do, but the line was dead, and I put the phone back. ![]()
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