![]() ![]() She drugs them and delivers them to her compatriots, who mutilate and fatten her victims so that they can be turned into meat, as human meat (called voddissin) is a very expensive delicacy on the aliens' barren homeworld. The protagonist is Isserley, an extraterrestrial sent to Earth by a rich corporation on her planet to kidnap unwary hitchhikers. It was later loosely adapted into a 2013 film of the same name directed by Jonathan Glazer. ![]() ![]() The novel, which was Faber's debut, was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Award. Set on the east coast in northern Scotland, it traces an alien who, manifesting in human form, drives around the countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet. Under the Skin is a 2000 science fiction novel by Michel Faber. ![]()
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