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Who Goes There?

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Who Goes There?

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Author: John W. Campbell, Jr.
Publisher: Pocket Ride Books, 2009
Shasta Publishers, 1948
Series: Hyperion Classics of Science Fiction: Book 44
Book Type: Novella
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Alien Invasion
First Contact
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Film & Television Adaptations

The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World

Winchester Pictures Corporation
4/29/1951

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The Thing

The Thing

Universal Pictures
6/25/1982

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The Thing

The Thing

Universal Pictures
10/14/2011

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Synopsis

"Who Goes There?": The novella that formed the basis of "The Thing" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying consequences, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal and man, alike.

Paranoia ensues as a band of frightened men work to discern friend from foe, and destroy the menace before it challenges all of humanity!

The story, hailed as "one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written" by the SF Writers of America, is best known to fans as THE THING - it was the basis of Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World in 1951, and John Carpenter's The Thing in 1982.


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Trailblazing and essential reading

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