The Puppet Masters story
A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart a covert invasion of Earth by mind-controlling alien parasites. It is based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel of the same title.
10 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| invasive life form from outer space | choice | Slug-like neural parasites from outer space plotted a covert invasion of Earth. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Slug-like neural parasites from outer space plotted a covert invasion of Earth. |
| father and son | major | Sam as an agent under the direct supervision of his father Andrew, who was running a secret branch of the CIA. |
| government secrecy | major | Andrew Nivens was in charge of the secret branch of the CIA that was responsible for combating the space neural paratites. |
| neural parasite | major | Slug-like creatures from outer space were attaching themselves to people's backs, taking control of their victims' nervous systems, and manipulating those people as puppets. |
| romantic love | major | Sam and Mary fell passionately in love with each other in the course of stopping space neural parasites from taking over the world. |
| exponential growth | minor | The government agents described how a starting population of 1000 human co-opting neural parasites that were doubling every 12 hours would number in excess of 250 billion within two weeks. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | minor | People assumed a UFO over Iowa was a flying saucer, but they were wrong: it was a hive full of alien neural parasites. |
| malicious hoaxes in society | minor | Reports of a flying saucer landing in rural Iowa were dismissed in the news as a hoax. |
| scientist occupation | minor | The exobiologist Mary and her colleague were dissecting one of the alien parasites in a laboratory setting. |