I have no particular desire to defend this author, because sparkly vampires? However, The Host isn't a ripoff of anything so much as it's just one more in a long line of fics that fit the mindcontrolling-alien-parasite subgenre. People have been writing this plot ever since Hal Clement did it first in 1949.
The yeerks, the goa'uld, the trill, that creepy thing in Wrath of Khan, Spider-Man's black suit . . . all the same basic theme.
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Date: 2008-04-11 04:02 am (UTC)The yeerks, the goa'uld, the trill, that creepy thing in Wrath of Khan, Spider-Man's black suit . . . all the same basic theme.