[Anthony Durrant]

Long ago, when I was at D. Roy Kennedy Public School in Ottawa, I read a book called THE PLANT PEOPLE. In this children’s novel – which was illustrated with photographs – a small town in Texas is invaded by alien spores that gradually transform their human hosts into cacti. Oddly, the young man who is the main character of the story never tries to communicate with the aliens, but he doesn’t fight them either, even though his own family are among the possessed. Later in the novel, a cure is found, but the broadcast announcing this is cut short when the spores sweep into the city from which the broadcast is coming. It was easily one of the weirdest stories I have ever read, and was what partially set me on the path I’m on today.

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