Posted 1st January 1970
ganglia: Lexx or Dark Skies, which came first?
If you want to nitpick it can probably be traced back to [i]The Puppet Masters[/i] by Robert A. Heinlein. And he probably got the idea from a type of fluke in real life that controls ants from inside their brains. Anyway, the brain parasite is now a common sci-fi element used by many writers (including me [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] ).
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.