The Eyes Have It

A casual reader makes a startling discovery while leafing through a discarded paperback: the characters may not be human at all. Their eyes roam independently, arms can be removed, people split up into separate parts, and some individuals apparently go about their lives without heads, guts, or brains. What everyone else accepts as ordinary behavior looks to him like overwhelming evidence of an extraterrestrial invasion.

Certain that he has uncovered a secret hiding in plain sight, he tries to alert the authorities—but official indifference only deepens his alarm. As he studies the book for more clues, familiar expressions take on bizarre biological meanings, transforming everyday language into a catalogue of alien anatomy. This playful science-fiction satire follows one man’s increasingly frantic attempt to make sense of a world where idioms may be literal and the most harmless sentence can reveal an astonishing species.