How do you test for that when all of your scientific tests are based on terrestrial life forms? How do you trust one another? What do you do to ensure the safety of the rest of the planet? And they’re men, so of course most of it involves violence and killing (and having not been in a situation like this, I have no idea how I would react, either).Īt 75 pages, Who Goes There? can easily be read in one sitting, and I found it pretty interesting. These guys (yes, they’re all men) have no idea who might be an alien imitation and who might be the actual person they look like. And the way the alien life form does this is very interesting, so I’ll leave the details out of this post in case you don’t want ALL the spoilers.īut what this book is really about, aside from the science involved (and don’t ask me how realistic the science is, because I have no clue, honestly), is how you deal with a situation in which an alien can become an imitation of any of the people you’re isolated with in the Antarctic. And its business (from the human perspective) is taking over the world, which it does by absorbing living things around itself in order to BECOME those things, and more specifically, consuming the humans around itself, because that’s obviously the best way to be successful with that taking-over-the-world agenda. So of course they want to thaw the ice and get the alien out so they can do tests on it and all that jazz, but it turns out that the alien is just in a kind of frozen suspension and once the ice is thawed, it gets up and goes about its business. What they’re left with is a big chunk of ice with an alien frozen inside. They try to thaw the space craft out of the ice with thermite, but it ignites and is destroyed. This leads them to the discovery of the space craft the alien was flying when it crashed.
First they find the body of something that they know right away doesn’t belong on Earth. In Who Goes There?, a group of scientific researchers are in the Antarctic studying various things when they come across some weird shit buried in the ice.
Stuart, this is the novella that John Carpenter adapted for his 1982 movie The Thing. Originally published in August 1938 in Astounding Science Fiction magazine under the pen name Don A. Campbell, Jr., is my second book for Vintage Science Fiction Month.
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