AN ALIEN INVASION ... FROM THE ALIEN'S POINT OF VIEW
A meteor carrying liquid-crystal alien organisms crashes into the California desert. Desperate to survive these harsh conditions, the aliens soon begin husking and copying bodies — a cat, a coyote, an old man dying of cancer, a young woman deep into a mushroom trip, and PAIGE, an officer with the Bureau of Land Management.
The aliens are part of an ancient hive mind — the SisterMind — drifting through space from planet to planet, where they replicate, reproduce, and colonize, gutting each planet of its resources before leaving to do it all over again. This is their plan for our Earth as well...
But when alien Paige finds herself with a human mind and emotions and family in all of their complexities, she resists the plan — leading to a war between different SisterMind factions led by a sinister corporate CEO and a young, psychedelic cult leader in the desert.
A brain-melting mix of body-horror, philosophical sci-fi, and high-octane thriller, INVADER asks — is the terrifying miracle of human consciousness enough to stop an alien invasion?
In a style that's one part Stephen King, one part David Cronenberg, and one part shattering family drama, INVADER's gripping text is magnified by twenty full-color illustrations by acclaimed comic book artist JOCK (Wytches, Gone, The Losers, Batman: The Black Mirror).
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JOCK is the three times New York Times best-selling British artist best known for his comics work with writer Andy Diggle on DC/Vertigo's The Losers, the award-winning Batman: The Black Mirror, and Wytches with writer Scott Snyder. Jock has also produced key art and concept design for films including Dredd, Annihilation, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the Oscar-winning Ex Machina. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he now lives and works in Devon, England.
BRIAN DeLEEUW is the author of the novels In This Way I Was Saved and The Dismantling. Along with director Adam Egypt Mortimer, he adapted In This Way I Was Saved into the feature film Daniel Isn’t Real. He and Mortimer previously collaborated on the independent horror film Some Kind of Hate. Other screenplay credits include Paradise Hills, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
ADAM EGYPT MORTIMER is a writer/director whose films include Some Kind of Hate, Daniel Isn’t Real, and Archenemy. He is the writer of the graphic novel Ballistic, published by Black Mask Studios. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Adam was an experimental musician based in Manhattan, where he played electric sitar and analogue signal generators in subway stations and on rooftops. He lives in Los Angeles and is a friend to all cats.
Part Starman, part Body Snatchers, part Under the Skin, this is sci-fi horror with gasoline in its veins, a bloody but moving study of humanhood by the aliens that might replace us. Smart, fast, funny, tragic, and a hundred other things too.
If, like me, you ever wondered how Invasion of the Body Snatchers would play from the point of view of the aliens, here comes Invader! With prose by turns spare, taut, propulsive, and wildly psychedelic, Invader shows exactly what might happen when a collective hive mind attempts to infiltrate and rewire the chaotic, contradictory individuality of the human experience. Existential fireworks ensue!
In case you’ve forgot, being human is a feat. It means juggling countless memories and crazy emotions, regulating finicky mindsets, and learning to love with your life. Here, DeLeeuw and Mortimer remind us to go easy on ourselves by way of the invaders who try to become us. The story is cinematic, scary, sagacious. It's incredible to me that the best book I've read on being human has come in the form of an alien invasion.
