The Brains of Earth
The Brains of Earth (also called Nopalgarth) is a science fiction story by Jack Vance published in 1966. It is about people who have a parasite called a "nopal" living in their brain. The nopals are undetectable to their hosts due to living on an alternate plane of reality. In the story, some people on faraway planets and on Earth have nopals. This is among many Cold War-era stories that used tales of alien takeovers of people's bodies as an allegory for the paranoia about Communist mind control of the West.
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