"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film "The Thing." John W. Campbell's classic tells of an antarctic research base that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien -- with terrifying results!
"First printed in the pages of Astounding, in the August 1938 issue under the byline of 'Don A. Stuart'"--P. [9].
Commissioned one by one as stretch goals for the Frozen Hell Kickstarter project (which broke records as one of the most successful science fiction publishing projects in Kickstarter history), this series of stories grew to book size- ...
Commissioned one by one as stretch goals for the Frozen Hell Kickstarter project (which broke records as one of the most successful science fiction publishing projects in Kickstarter history), this series of stories grew to book ...
FROZEN HELL is the original version of John W. Campbell's classic novella, Who Goes There? (filmed as The Thing). Recently discovered among Campbell's papers, this version adds another 45 pages to the story.
“Would you mind showing me some of the places they filmed?” I ask. ... tramp and the woman and boy are there to put him off his guard, so I can clonk him over the head with a tin of Tennents Super wrapped in a wet sock, then nick stuff?
The surviving men destroy the Blair-thing just in time. Who Goes There? was first filmed as The Thing From Another World, a black and white RKO film released in 1951. It was one of the first and one of the best of the sci-fi monster ...
Continuing from the success of the first four Necronomicon books, volume five again seeks out controversial and transgressive cinema from around the globe.
A definite look at the state of science fiction studies today that surveys the field from Hugo Gernsbach to the present.
... envisioned an alien invasion story as a “ takeover ” tale with The War of the Newts ( 1936 ) , while John W. Campbell Jr. introduced the first shape - shifting alien in “ Who Goes There ? ” ( filmed as “ The Thing , ” 1951 and 1982 ) ...
In “The Last Evolution” Campbell has thinking machines and men evolving along parallel tracks on Earth until alien ... Earth's thinking machines desperately try to evolve to counter the threat of the invading Outsiders and do so, ...