Jack Finney

But unlike Invasion

of the Body Snatchers and some of these earlier iterations of Body Snatchers, like the original Jack Finney, or whether it was from back in the day...

I like that.

I'm grateful that Williamson changed it.

One of them was published in 1970, titled Time and Again.

And, um, oh boy, the author's name [laughs] is Jack Finney.

I'm sorry.

Jack Finney.

The great Jack Finney, who had written time travel stories-

Hmm

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...

Rudolph Fence, it did not take me very long to find this, is a character...

In a short science fiction story from 1951 titled I'm Scared by Jack Finney and it appeared in Collier's Magazine September 15th, 1951.

Very good.

It was fiction.

Yeah.

So this movie here is based on the 1954 novel by Jack Finney in which the pod people spores land on earth and begin.

Speaking of

weirdos.

I don't know anything about Jack Finney.

Is he, is he, he must be, he's a weirdo.

He was a bit of a weirdo.

And I have to admit, I didn't think of Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a weird tale, but by golly, it's as weird as I'll get out.

And we're going to talk about the original novel by Jack Finney here on Strange Studies to Strange Stories.

I'm Chris Lackey.

And I'm Chad Pfeiffer.

No.

But that's a topic for our later episodes.

First of all, we've never covered Jack Finney on the show before.

So let's find out who this guy is.