Review: Plan 9 meets the Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2013
The only reason I would want to be President of the United States would be to see the secret files about what really happened at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Author Charles Deemer offers one scenario that's as plausible as any other, I suppose. Let's say that the alien who crash-landed transferred his mind to an earthman before he died. (Remember the gruesome autopsy film you can see on YouTube?) The question is, what has he been doing ever since? Three women - Tricia, Amy, and Helen - who have loved the alien, now named "Joe," have learned his secret, but they have no idea what Joe's compatriots have planned for Earth.It's an original, fast-paced story as the three women, after learning what Earth's fate is to be, team with Joe to thwart the alien race's evil plans for their planet. It may sound like a grim story, but I found a good bit of tongue-in-cheek humor, and at one point, so many people were running around in other people's bodies that the story resembled a zany Marx Brothers farce.The author's background is screenwriting, and the writing style is somewhat similar in format to a screenplay, with some chapters being very short and meant to set a scene or provide a transition. This is not a criticism, since it worked very well, but it made for a different kind of reading experience.A review copy of the book was provided by the author.