The agent, spy, government conspiracy, aspect plays a small role too, but it´s more of a vehicle to give the characters options to talk too much.
I don´t know how many mind control, body horror, parasite,… tropes had already been established at the moment Heinlein wrote this book, but it might certainly have had a massive impact on many pandemic, alien invasion, horror, and sci-fi works that followed and it has more suspense and settings than some of his other works. Heinlein, did you really combine a very sexist plot element with the assumption that no gay people exist as the icing on the cake of your very awkward, biased, and wanna be subliminal writing? Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. And most of Iowa is already under their control. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do.
So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. Then four more follow up agents also disappeared. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting back. Case closed.Įxcept that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax.
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa.
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