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Jan 1, 1982 · by Alan Dean Foster (Author) 4.6 89 ratings. See all formats and editions. A strange unknown creature attacks the inhabitants of a secluded outpost in the Antarctic. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 196 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Bantam Books. Publication date. January 1, 1982. ISBN-10. 0553204777.
Jan 1, 2001 · Novelization by American author Alan Dean Foster of screenplay to the 1982 Hollywood film The Thing directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster, based on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.
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Jun 18, 2020 · Their stories are certainly very similar, but Carpenter clearly went back to author John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There? for inspiration, as his film is much closer to the book than the 1951 version.
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The Thing is a novelization of the 1982 film with the same name, it was written by author Alan Dean Foster.
What if aliens did actually land on Earth thousands of years ago and had frozen in the Antarctic ice? What if those aliens could take over a person's body and literally duplicate that person so completely that no one would know or could tell the difference? What would you do? How would you act? That's the scenario faced by a group of researchers in...
Although the novelization remains faithful to the film's plot, there are several notable differences between the book and the film:
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•During their investigation of the ruined Norwegian camp, MacReady and Copper also recover numerous audio tapes. Back at base, the American team discover one of the tapes contains a recording of the chaos as the Thing runs rampant throughout the Norwegian outpost.
•The remains of the deformed Thing recovered from the Norwegian camp are burned before they can infect anyone at the American base.
•The Thing in the novel is even more virulently infectious than the creature in the film; ingesting even the smallest amount of it can cause an individual to become assimilated, as happens to some of the dogs in the kennel, after they attack the Kennel-Thing during its transformation and bite off pieces of it.
•When the Americans travel to the site where the Thing was unearthed, they find that the Norwegians accidentally blew the creature's spacecraft to pieces when they attempted to excavate it with explosives. The creature's spacecraft was similarly destroyed in the The Thing from Another World, but not the 1982 film.
Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
By Alan Dean Foster. horror | 196 pages | Published in NaN. horror science fiction fiction film fantasy media tie in aliens adventure action monsters. A strange unknown creature attacks the inhabitants of a secluded outpost in the Antarctic. Estimated read time: 5 min read. One Sentence Summary.
