The Osmid Version

Have you ever had the feeling that you didn’t belong?
Mark thinks that the planet with the four suns is Earth – but he is not sure. Brighton seems to be as he remembers it – but not quite. His everyday life seems OK though. There is the Mother and the Father, and he goes to school with his friends Martin and Phil and they seem to think that everything is all right!
But when he first wakes up and his mind is clear, Mark knows that it isn’t. For one thing, there’s Monk. Monk is his toy monkey. Old and brown and shabby. The only thing in this whole world that is not bright and gleaming-new. Once, Monk must have been new. Once he must have had silky fur and two eyes. Perhaps yesterday? But what is yesterday? And why does it disappear as soon as he swallows the pill the Mother brings in with his orange juice? Is it the pill that makes everything all right? Makes everything as it should be? Home. School. Picture show. Football …
Until the morning when he accidentally drops the pill! And then things really get confusing!
Luckily, he meets Col. Col is a Watcher. Not the easiest person to get along with. But at least he explains about A-os … and the Osmids … and how Mark is just the other half of a Changeling program … part of an Osmid experiment to help them take over first the Earth – and then the Universe!
So Mark decides that he has to get back home. To warn his own people.

But first, he has to get rid of The Osmid Version.