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A remote scientific research expedition at the North Pole is invaded by a monstrous alien, reawakened after lying frozen for centuries after a crash-landing. The alien is intelligent, cunning and a shape-changer who can assume the form and personality of anything it destroys and soon it is among the men of the expedition, killing and replacing them, using its shape-changing ability to lull the scientists one by one into inattention and destruction. The transformed alien can seemingly pass every effort at detection and the expedition seems doomed... WHO GOES THERE?, according to the science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz (1920-1997), had an autobiographical impetus: Campbell's mother and aunt were identical twins and enjoyed the "game" of substituting for one another in his care as an infant and young child, confusing him again and again with false identity. It was this uncertainty, this susceptibility to masquerade and his terror at the game which, Moskowitz said, Campbell funneled into this last and greatest of his magazine pieces. (A short novel, THE MOON IS HELL, was published only in book form in the early 1950's.) Carefully and rigorously extrapolated in its portrait of the m
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- Author
- Campbell, John W
- Publisher
- Rosetta Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780795300660
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Thriller, Horror
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (52 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Who goes there? : the novella that formed the basis of The thing (2009)
- Who Goes There? (1991)
- Who Goes There? · The Basic of the King (1938)
- Who Goes There? (2001)
- Who goes there? : the basis for "The Thing" (1995)
- Who Goes There? · The 1938 Novella (1938)
- Who Goes There? [Rosetta Books] (2010) (1938)
- Who goes there? : the basis for "The Thing" (1938)
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