John W. Campbell Jr.

Fans of John Carpenter's The Thing can rejoice - here is the original, previously-unpublished, longer version of John W. Campbell's classic story, Who Goes There?, filmed as The Thing. Long buried in John W. Campbell's papers, here is the original version....

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's classic film The Thing.

As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, the crew could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe....

The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible....

Three against the stars! A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention....

John W. Campbell Jr.’s Who Goes There? is a chilling and masterfully crafted science fiction classic that delves into themes of paranoia, survival, and the unknown. Set in the frozen isolation of Antarctica, the story follows a group of scientists who uncover a mysterious alien organism buried...

Here is an anthology of exceptional science-fiction short stories....