Invader
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?
Reviews
“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.”
– Daniel Kraus (Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angel Down and Whalefall)
“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.”
– Josh Malerman (New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House)
“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!”
– Grant Morrison (New York Times bestselling author of The Invisibles and Arkham Asylum)
“A bold, thrilling, genuinely moving reinvention of the alien invasion template, Invader will make you believe in something that's easy to forget about in these troubled times: the miracle of humanity.”
– Benjamin Percy (author of The Ninth Metal, Red Moon, and Thrill and the writer of Wolverine at Marvel Comics)