![]() In 1954, Finney published a serialized novel in Collier's Magazine called "The Body Snatchers" later paperback editions altered the title to Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Who's Jack Finney, you may ask? The two-word answer is: "Pod People." ![]() ![]() Finney started out in advertising before he became a science-fiction and suspense writer, and maybe that background accounts for the pithiness of his writing and the intensity of his images - images that bore into your brain like a parasite. The fact that Finney would have turned 100 this month gives me an occasion. I've long wanted to give a nod to one of these "accidental myth-makers," novelist and short-story writer Jack Finney. They're what some critics call "good-bad" stories: The writing may be workmanlike and the characters barely developed, but something about them is so potent that they're unforgettable - so unforgettable they can attain the status of myth. Sometimes the stories that stay with us aren't the classics or even all that polished. ![]()
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