Gelman, Peter

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(? - ) US author whose Flying Saucers over Hennepin: A Novel about an Avenue (1997), is a spoof of Alien Invasion tales like The Body Snatcher (1955) by Jack Finney, famously filmed (twice) as The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Here, parts of Minneapolis are taken over secretly by "doppelganger mannequins". [JC]