Bookfilter: memory wiped aliens
April 27, 2022 4:24 PM Subscribe
I read this in the early 2000s, but it was a mass market paperback in a rental house, so could have been older.
Main character (or one of them) is a doctor, I think? Maybe named Sam/Samantha? and finds an abandoned child she immediately feels very bonded to. She is weirded out when the girl starts drawing beach scenes that Sam remembers from her own childhood (including her own sand bucket?).
Towards the end of the book, Sam (and the love interest she’s acquired along the way) end up sneaking into a government compound, where they discover a captive alien child (named Martin? Marvin?). I think Martin drew them there with some kind of psychic connection. Martin reveals that in fact they are ALL aliens—the beach that Sam remembers from her childhood is where their ship landed. Their alien memories were wiped and replaced with false human ones, to help them establish a life on earth. And the kid she feels bonded with is her daughter, who was sent down later with a whole group of kids to find their parents. Martin was one of these, but his human disguise didn’t work, so he got captured up by the government. I think there was another little girl who could start fires with her mind. They maybe all had some flavor of psychic powers?
That’s about all I remember. Ring any bells?
Towards the end of the book, Sam (and the love interest she’s acquired along the way) end up sneaking into a government compound, where they discover a captive alien child (named Martin? Marvin?). I think Martin drew them there with some kind of psychic connection. Martin reveals that in fact they are ALL aliens—the beach that Sam remembers from her childhood is where their ship landed. Their alien memories were wiped and replaced with false human ones, to help them establish a life on earth. And the kid she feels bonded with is her daughter, who was sent down later with a whole group of kids to find their parents. Martin was one of these, but his human disguise didn’t work, so he got captured up by the government. I think there was another little girl who could start fires with her mind. They maybe all had some flavor of psychic powers?
That’s about all I remember. Ring any bells?
Was it turned into a movie? Because that beach scene feels really similar to something I’ve seen but can’t put my finger on…
posted by mochapickle at 3:40 PM on April 28, 2022
posted by mochapickle at 3:40 PM on April 28, 2022
Response by poster: I’m not aware of a movie adaptation, but there could have been.
posted by tan_coul at 7:52 PM on April 28, 2022
posted by tan_coul at 7:52 PM on April 28, 2022
This sounds very much like a Dean R Koontz type story. If that’s any help.
posted by my-username at 12:36 AM on April 29, 2022
posted by my-username at 12:36 AM on April 29, 2022
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posted by widdershins at 2:17 PM on April 28, 2022