Who Goes There?
Filmed as The Thing
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Who Goes There?
Narrated by:
Addison Anderson
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Narrated by:
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Addison Anderson
About this listen
"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's classic film The Thing. Campbell's classic story tells of an Antarctic research base that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien with terrifying results!
This Wildside Press edition is the only ebook version of this classic story authorized by the Campbell estate.
©1938,1965, 2024 The Estate of John W. Campbell, Jr. (P)2024 Wildside Press LLCListeners also enjoyed...
It has a few minor flaws, from a writing perspective, mixed in with the dazzling originality and it could have been polished into an outright classic, acknowledged in its day. But for all that, its fascination has gripped the imagination of fans, film makers, musicians and fan fiction writers (some of them actually pretty good) throughout the years since.
The narration, while fluent, is flat when it comes to the characters, who all come off sounding the same in the hands of this narrator, who isn’t bothering with tone, accents or characterisation. That’s a shame, since a science fiction thriller, of this type, relies on the tension and dense atmosphere of claustrophobia, juxtaposed against the dizzying, agoraphobia of the potential threat from other characters and the vertiginous, howling endless exterior of its Southern Polar setting.
It is still well worth a listen though. Especially if you’re a sci-fi fan and don’t know this story; those listeners are in for a treat.
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Lots of drawn-out sciency explanations and monologues about biology that add nothing to the story.
The creature is very hard to understand. It starts out as a single entity and then all of a sudden it outnumbers the humans with no clear explanation besides the in-depth, convoluted scientific monologues.
Narration is very good.
Too short.
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Brilliant listen
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