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The Body Snatchers
The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by American writer Jack Finney, originally serialized in "Colliers Magazine" in 1954, which describes real-life Mill Valley, California (called in the original film by the fictional name of "Santa Mira") being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space. The seeds, grown from plantlike pods, replace sleeping people with perfect physical duplicates with all the same knowledge, memories, scars, etc. but are incapable of human emotion or
be relied on to comply with the author's ethos. The narrative of a zombie apocalypse carries strong connections to the turbulent social landscape of the United States in the 1960s, when "Night of the Living Dead" provided an indirect commentary on the dangers of conformity, a theme also explored in the novel "The Body Snatchers" (1954) and associated film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956). Many also feel that zombies allow people to deal with their own anxieties about the end of the world.