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Are Parasites controlling your mind? Watch this series and see what you think....
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link to Parasite Rex book on pdf
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snippet from book
"The oldest entry I could find
was Robert Heinlein's The Puppetmasters, a 1955
novel. A spaceship full of aliens travels from Saturn's
moon Titan and lands near Kansas City. But the
aliens inside aren't the standard-issue 1950s
hairless bipeds; they're pulsating jellyfish-like
creatures that latch onto people's spines. Hiding
underneath the clothes of their hosts, they tap into
their brains and force them to help spread the
parasites across the planet. The fight against them
is a bit ludicrous, with the government forcing
everyone to walk around practically naked to be sure
they're not carrying an alien. Humanity is saved when
the army finally finds a virus that can kill the
parasites, and the book closes with a fleet of
spaceships leaving Earth for Titan to exterminate the
parasites for good. It's a stiff, peculiar book— the
only one I've read that ends with the battle cry "Death
and Destruction!"
"The Puppetmasters was turned into a pretty
mediocre movie in 1994, but its essence— the
notion of humans harboring giant parasites— has
become a Hollywood institution. Parasites are a part
of our shared dramatic language, just as they were in
Greek comedies. Any blockbuster can rest its plot
on parasites without anyone's worrying that it will
seem too esoteric. One of the biggest movies of
1998, The Faculty, takes place in a high school
where parasites from another planet are taking over
the bodies and minds of teachers and students.
These fluke-like things sprout tentacles and tendrils,
and they pull themselves into their new hosts through
their mouths or ears. Their hosts change from
frazzled teachers and sulking, violent kids to glazedeyed
upstanding citizens who try to spread the
parasite to new hosts. It's up to the assorted losers
of the school— drug dealers, geeks, and dropouts—
to save the world from the invasion.
Parasites got their first big break at the movies
almost twenty years earlier, in the 1979 movie Alien.
A spaceship hauling ore stops off to investigate a
crash on a lifeless planet. The crew discovers an
alien ship that has been destroyed in a ruthless
attack, and nearby they come across a clutch of
eggs. One of the crew, a man named Kane, takes a
close look at one of the eggs, and a giant crablike
thing bursts out of it, clamping to his face and
wrapping a tail around his neck. His crewmates
bring him back to their ship, alive but comatose.
When the ship's doctor tries to get the thing off him, it
tightens its tail around Kane's neck. The next day it
has disappeared, and Kane seems fine. He gets up
and eats voraciously, to all appearances normal. Of
course, no movie monster ever just disappears. This
one has been devouring Kane's guts, and before
long he suddenly clutches his stomach, writhing and
screaming, and a little knobby-headed alien pierces
through his skin and leaps out. As the parasitic wasp
is to the caterpillar, so this alien is to humans."
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