![]() ![]() There are thirty-seven men working at a polar expedition deep in the Antarctic, doing scientific research when they discover the wreckage of a crashed spaceship (which looks much like a submarine). WHO GOES THERE? was filmed in 1951 as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and again in 1982 as JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING, and it inspired (less directly) everything from IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE to ALIEN as well as dozens of pulp stories. The setting and the mood are intense, and the premise is so powerful that the story still has a major kick to it. He didn't have a glib gift for choosing just the right word. The story isn't perfect Campbell's actual writing style is a bit clunky and vague here and there, and a few times he rambles on too long after his point is made (which diffuses some of the impact). I can imagine how many teenage readers first starting this story unprepared back in 1938 must have felt like someone had just snuck into the room and was standing quietly right behind them. A claustrophobic nightmare of a group of men trapped inside an Antarctic research station with a shape-changing assimilating alien, WHO GOES THERE? shook me up just now, and I had read it before, long ago. Stuart") is one of the scariest science-fiction tales you are ever likely to read. From the August 1938 issue of ASTOUNDING, this story by John W. ![]()
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