The Bodysnatchers is Finney's only science fiction novel. Some of the early magazine stories (collected as The Third Level, 1957) have science fiction elements, but they, like The Bodysnatchers, lack the attention to technology and other-worldliness which characterize most mainstream science fiction. Finney pays more attention to the wonder within this world than to alien worlds, to the inventiveness of the human imagination rather than to its engineering wizardry.
Marion's Wall (1973) repeats one theme.....
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