What if aliens did actually land on Earth thousands of years ago and had frozen in the Antarctic ice?ДЄlan Dean Foster born November 18, is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series, more than 20 standalone novels and many faithful novelizations of film scripts. It manages to combine a slow burn of tension and suspicion with bright flashes of inventive violence beneath the surface of which hides disturbing questions about what we truly know of one another and ourselves.ДЄdded by 2 of our members. The novel is a masterpiece of paranoia and monstrosity. The brilliance of the story rests on this psychological terror that is manifested with the fear of the unknown and manages to preserve a lasting place in our memory.

But the story is not about what The Thing symbolizes rather, itвЂ™s about the unrelenting acknowledgment that such a threat exists and, whether its form is psychological or physical, is what humans should be afraid of. The metamorphoses made spectacular by hideous eruptions of half-formed limbs and mutated organs.The Thing is a representation of threats that could destroy civilization.

Without a distinct corporeal form, the alien emerges only when threatened, its appearance announced by a grotesque display of shifting physical transformations. The isolated crew is exposed to an alien creature which has been buried in the ice for centuries, an organism that digests and replicates its victims, and then hides behind a perfect imitation of its prey. Campbell,В the story involves an American research station tucked away in the solitary landscape of the Antarctic. Based on the novellaВ Who Goes There(1938) by John. The Thing by Alan Dean Foster is a novelization of the 1982 classic by John Carpenter.

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