Both scenes make sense in the context of the book's Science Fictional setting, and both are highly scary if applied to real American life." George Stubbins noted "Two particularly disturbing scenes in The Puppet Masters-the one in which members of the President's privately created Security Service hold at gunpoint the entire membership of both Houses of Congress and proceed to search out the traitors among therm, and that in which armed vigilantes roam the streets in search of traitors and shoot to death with impunity anyone they suspect of being such. The novel evokes a sense of paranoia and Heinlein repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the mind-controlling parasites and the Communist Russians, echoing the prevailing Second Red Scare in the United States. It was originally serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction (September, October, and November 1951). Heinlein, in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space. The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A.
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