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Renee Sommers's avatar

Have you ever read Double Star by Robert A Heinlein? It’s about a down and out actor replacing a well know politician after he’s kidnapped.

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Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

Another similar one is The Second Lady, about a spy impersonating the kidnapped First Lady.

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Renee Sommers's avatar

Interesting!! I’ll have to check it out.

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Corkey's avatar

I think the original Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is more applicable. These have to be Pod People as they cannot possibly be human.

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Renee Sommers's avatar

In the Body Snatchers they take over the host. Spoiler alert: In Double Star he is a fill-in for a kidnapped leader, who later has a stroke and dies. The double then has to live out the rest of his life as the person he was impersonating. I don’t think Fetterman looks like he did before his hospitalization.

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TB's avatar

I remember that one, my dad had it on his bookshelf. The double guy even ends up marrying the leader's girlfriend, once she gets over the dead original. It also involves weird non-human aliens that live on Mars.

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Renee Sommers's avatar

Yes, he has to be hypnotized to be able to be in the same room as the other alien leader.

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Forgot about that one!

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