Jack Finney

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...

Originally published in 1955, Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirised Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'. Most people know the story from seeing The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the classic 1978 remake (one...