Painting In Tongues

Alien Transmission

In the movie "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers" replacement townspeople curdle from the souffle interiors of interstellar seed pods, soon absorbing enough of the details of speech and behavior to pass for any of us in regular life…

The fear of the foetus that came out of this first alien beachhead is still with us in society's endless wrangling about stem cell differentiation, veal, and mushrooms. Here a team of extraterrestrial podlings drift to their assignments in Contra Costa County, each optimized for effective information transfer. Don't look behind you...