The invasion
The Invasion (original title The Puppet Masters ) is the title of a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein from 1951 and was first published in Galaxy magazine. The first German translation was published by Gebrüder Weiss in 1957.
The novel was first published with the title Space Mollusks Conquer the Earth and later as The Puppet Players. In 2017 he appeared on Heyne as Die Invasion .
Heinlein describes the struggle of American secret agents against parasitic invaders from space. It is Heinlein's only story in which he wrote about the science fiction subject "extraterrestrial invasions". In Germany it was first published under the title Space mollusks conquer the earth . The American film Puppet Masters, released in 1994, is based on Heinlein's story.
expenditure
- 1951: The Puppet Masters. Doubleday (first published)
- 1958: Space mollusks conquer the earth. Gebrüder Weiss (German first publication)
- 1965: Space mollusks conquer the earth. Heyne publishing house
- 1982: Space mollusks conquer the earth. Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3453300106 .
- 1994: The Puppeteers. Lübbe Verlag, ISBN 3404212118 .
- 1994: The Puppet Masters. Del Rey Books, ISBN 0345330145 .
- 2017: the invasion. Heyne, ISBN 978-3-4533-1742-0 .
reception
The The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction judged the work as a child of its time: The Puppet Masters (September to November 1951 Galaxy; 1951; restored text 1990) is an effective if rather hysterical invasion story featuring alien parasites ... who control human minds, and a prime example of Paranoia in 1950s sf; ...
Uwe Nettelbeck classified the novel 1966 for Die Zeit in the science fiction landscape of the time: Finally, there is a third variety of science fiction - the thing-from-space-stories, the horror-tales. They either play in the present and a familiar environment or at best in a near future, which is still foreseeable, and are only of secondary interest in technical phenomena. ... Of course there is a considerable difference in level within this third variant, besides such successful things as Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters" (space mollusks conquer the earth), ...
Web links
- Literature by and about The Invasion in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/heinlein_robert_a
- ↑ Uwe Nettelbeck: "Hard-working writers conquer space" from: Die Zeit 49/1966, online at https://www.zeit.de/1966/49/fleissige-schreiber-erobern-den-weltraum/komplettansicht . Retrieved December 9, 2018