Frozen Hell, John W. Campbell, Jr.
Frozen Hell, John W. Campbell, Jr.
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Frozen Hell
The Book That Inspired The Thing

Author: John W. Campbell, Jr.

Narrator: Yuri Lowenthal

Unabridged: 3 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wildside Press

Published: 01/20/2022


Synopsis

Fans of John Carpenter's "The Thing" can rejoice -- here is the original, previously-unpublished, 45-pages-longer version of John W. Campbell's classic story, "Who Goes There?" (filmed as The Thing and The Thing from Another World). Recently discovered at Harvard by scholar Alec Nevala-Lee, long buried in John W. Campbell's papers, here is the original version of "Who Goes There?" It adds an astonishing 45 pages of extra material to the classic story.Included is a Preface by Alec Nevala-Lee, and Introduction by science fiction grandmaster Robert Silverberg, and the complete text of this newly discovered version of the classic novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on February 14, 2021

For fans of the 1982 movie The Thing an absolute must read. Here we have "Who Goes There?" the literary model with for the movie with three extra chapters (the first three). The novella seemed to be missing in this version but recently was found in the library of a University... wow, what a story. C......more

Goodreads review by Warren on February 05, 2022

Fans of "The Thing" will be certainly wondering whether "Frozen Hell" is worth their time. The answer is, "Of course!" But your opinion over which is the better version of the literary story will likely vary. "Who Goes There?" aka "The Thing from Another World" is a masterpiece of science fiction and......more

Goodreads review by Izabela on August 20, 2024

3.5 ⭐️ Nie twierdzę, że rozumiem wszystkie naukowe kwestie, które zostały tutaj poruszone, bo wcale nie. O dziwo jednak nie przeszkodziło mi to w lekturze, a po przeczytaniu przedmowy i wprowadzenia (które w Vesperze zawsze poszerzają perspektywę) czuję, że bardziej doceniam znaczenie tej książki w h......more

Goodreads review by Rysik on March 08, 2025

No cóż... to było coś......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on March 12, 2019

I vividly remember reading "Who Goes There?" as a child, in a sci-fi short story compilation I checked out from the library whose name I can't recall. I've completely forgotten the other stories, which were of the kind that fellow sci-fi veteran Robert Silverberg fondly but firmly sums up in the Int......more