Jack Finney was an American author best known for writing The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis of the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers that is considered to be one of the best political allegories of the 1950s.

Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as John Finney, but he was later renamed Walter Braden Finney when he was three years old in honor of his father after his passing. Everyone would go on to call him Jack though and that was he was known as an author. Finney’s first published story was in the 1940s and his first novel, 5 Against the House, was published in 1954.

Publication Order of Time and Again Books

Time and Again (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From Time to Time (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

5 Against the House (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Invasion of the Body Snatchers / The Body Snatchers (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The House of Numbers (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Assault on a Queen (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Good Neighbor Sam (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Woodrow Wilson Dime (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marion's Wall (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Night People (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Collections

The Third Level (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Clock of Time (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I Love Galesburg in the Springtime (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Forgotten News (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
About Time (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Pan Book of Horror Stories Books

The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The 7th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The 16th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology series.

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1952(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pan Book of Horror Stories(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
50 Short Science Fiction Tales(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories of Suspense(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Connoisseur's Science Fiction(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Time and Space(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales in Time(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time Machines(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like Jack Finney Books, You’ll Love…

The Body Snatchers is definitely Finney’s best known work. The story takes place in the quiet town of Mill Valley where a doctor has discovered a terrible conspiracy when he realizes that alien-life forms are taking over the bodies and mind of his neighbors and friends. The people are made from seeds from space that replace sleeping people with perfect replicas of their bodies. The body snatchers are incapable of feeling human emotion and if they aren’t stopped, the human race might cease to exist.

Finney’s great time travel story is called Time and Again. The book sees an advertising agent named Si Morley recruited to join a secret government operation that studies time travel. He is quick to volunteer himself to leave his 20th-century life and head back to New York in 1882. His friend recently discovered a half-burned letter from that year and he hopes to investigate it. When he goes back in time he finds something that he didn’t expect to find, love. That relationship will force him to choose between two worlds – his present or her past.

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