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Who Goes There?

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Who Goes There?	comment	Who Goes There? is a Science Fiction novella written by John W. Campbell. Originally an unpublished full-length novel titled Frozen Hell, it was shortened and renamed and published under the pen name Don A. Stuart in 1938 in the magazine Astounding Stories. It directly inspired three feature films—1951's The Thing from Another World, John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing, and the latter's 2011 prequel of the same name (and more loosely inspired 1972's Horror Express)—and indirectly influenced several decades of science fiction works by inspiring other authors to rip it off. The X-Files adapted it twice, for instance, while The Terror is something of a Victorian-era homage.The story follows a group of scientific researchers in Antarctica who stumble upon an alien life form, which revives after they thaw it from the ice it's been encased in for twenty million years. The alien has the ability to assume the form, memories, and mannerisms of any living being it consumes—while retaining most of its original mass—as well as read their minds and project their thoughts. Which members of the expedition are still human, and which are alien impostors? As the ice that's keeping them isolated from the rest of the world begins to thaw, the remaining humans realize they'd better figure it out soon, because the fate of humanity is very much at stake.Author Alec Nevalla-Lee rediscovered Campbell's original manuscript for Frozen Hell in 2018, and it was published the following year after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Who Goes There? / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Who Goes There? / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Discussed. Most of them think it's illogical for something from another planet to be compatible enough with humans to eat and/or infect them. They learn the hard way that the universe is always one step beyond logic.
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Who Goes There? / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Who Goes There? / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Invoked; Connant is so freaked out by the alien that he insists "The thing grew up on evil, adolesced slowly roasting alive the local equivalent of kittens, and amused itself through maturity on new and ingenious torture."
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Who Goes There? / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Who Goes There? / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: McReady is just about the only character who keeps his cool throughout.
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Who Goes There? / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Who Goes There? / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Thing's Modus Operandi.
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Who Goes There? / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
Who Goes There? / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: Once it becomes clear that anyone could be the alien, the bickering starts.
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Who Goes There? / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Who Goes There? / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Inverted and discussed when Blair calls out the others for assuming the Thing is Obviously Evil because of its abhorrent appearance, saying it would likely believe that Humans Are Ugly.
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Who Goes There? / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Who Goes There? / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: The last time we see Clark, McReady's talking about how he's the only one they know has to be human on account of him murdering Kinner. The only mention after that is them naming him in a list of people who turned out to be Things — presumably, he was caught out by the blood test.
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Who Goes There? / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Who Goes There? / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: More than a few of the scientists crack out into deranged laughter at the thought of becoming a Thing.
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Who Goes There? / int_4fc12ba1	type	Beware the Mind Reader
Who Goes There? / int_4fc12ba1	comment	Beware the Mind Reader: The Thing has Telepathy and Voluntary Shapeshifting abilities. It uses them to copy both the minds and bodies of its victims before performing a Kill and Replace on them.
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Who Goes There? / int_54bdd7a1	type	Phlebotinum du Jour
Who Goes There? / int_54bdd7a1	comment	Phlebotinum du Jour: Since this was written before nuclear power was a practical proposition, electricity and magnetism are the focus of all the high technology. The radios and planes are disabled by breaking their magnets, and the Thing is killed with an overpowered high-tension cattle-prod.
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Who Goes There? / int_5517f7a5	type	Just Think of the Potential!
Who Goes There? / int_5517f7a5	comment	Just Think of the Potential!: MacReady laments having accidentally destroyed the alien's spaceship. They get hold of some alien tech in the end, however.
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Who Goes There? / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
Who Goes There? / int_60e49895	comment	The Leader: McReady is this, even though he's technically second-in-command to Commander Garry.
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Who Goes There? / int_673999b1	type	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
Who Goes There? / int_673999b1	comment	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: Blair, after he goes nuts. Leaving him isolated turns out to be a bad idea for our heroes.
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Who Goes There? / int_6a993504	type	Audio Adaptation
Who Goes There? / int_6a993504	comment	Audio Adaptation: By the BBC and Must Be Nice Studios.
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Who Goes There? / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
Who Goes There? / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: Notably averted, unlike in most of its adaptations. Once they figure out what theyâ€™re up against, the researchers move in groups no smaller than four and suffer no further casualties.
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Who Goes There? / int_76c0e85d	type	High-Voltage Death
Who Goes There? / int_76c0e85d	comment	High-Voltage Death: The best way of permanently killing the Thing is electricity, high voltage, for as long as it takes.
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Who Goes There? / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Who Goes There? / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Benning is a Mauve Shirt throughout, but generally tags along with Barclay and MacReady, but his final fate isn't revealed. It can be assumed he survived, as he was not mentioned by MacReady when he lists the dead and the men turned into Things, and the odds were generally in his favor.
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Who Goes There? / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
Who Goes There? / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: "Boys, meet Clark, the only one we know is human — by trying to commit murder and failing." Ironically, he's wrong.
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Who Goes There? / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Who Goes There? / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Commander Garry begins the story with "you know the outline of the story..." to his base personnel before letting McReady tell the parts of the story the rest of the men don't know.
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Who Goes There? / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Who Goes There? / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The initial attempts to kill the Thing using a blowtorch, and then later, the bodies.
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Who Goes There? / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Who Goes There? / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Thing has three of them, and a murderous Death Glare. The characters are majorly creeped out long before it comes back to life; one insisting that it must have spent its youth tormenting small animals.
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Who Goes There? / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Who Goes There? / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Norris's nightmares. Turns out he's just picking up on the Thing's thoughts.
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Who Goes There? / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Who Goes There? / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted; MacReady fires his revolver twice at the albatross to drive it off, once to destroy the hand-held death ray the Blair Thing was pointing at him, and once into each of its three eyes before throwing the empty gun at its face.
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Who Goes There? / int_b467bfb4	type	Copied the Morals, Too
Who Goes There? / int_b467bfb4	comment	Copied the Morals, Too: The Thing acts exactly like whatever it's imitating, right down to the victim's feelings and morals. None of the Things ever attempt to sabotage the investigation, and Connant-Thing raises the alarm on the original's escape for no other reason than because that's what the real Connant would have done.
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Who Goes There? / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Who Goes There? / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Invoked. McNeily points out that if Connant-Thing hadn't woken everyone up after being assimilated, the original Thing would have finished assimilating the dogs and nobody would have been any the wiser. Copper suggests that the Things simply don't have any priorities beyond being perfect imitations, and since Connant would have raised the alarm, that's what Connant-Thing does too.
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Who Goes There? / int_b6a13a56	type	Ten Little Murder Victims
Who Goes There? / int_b6a13a56	comment	Ten Little Murder Victims: The extreme cold outside forces the researchers into close proximity where they can all see each other easier, but the creature can also assimilate them easier.
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Who Goes There? / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Who Goes There? / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: The greatest weakness in the creature's disguise is that its blood, once separated from the body, is a separate organism with its own instinct for self-preservation.
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Who Goes There? / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
Who Goes There? / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: People repeatedly make the mistake of assuming that you can't be a Thing if you attack a Thing.
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Who Goes There? / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Who Goes There? / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Several of the men lose it, particularly Blair and Kinner — if they were still men at that point, that is.
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Who Goes There? / int_cde175c8	type	Fake Static
Who Goes There? / int_cde175c8	comment	Fake Static: Commander Garry and Copper discuss whether or not to invoke this, together with Apocalyptic Log, if it becomes necessary to ward off a rescue attempt.
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Who Goes There? / int_d323d090	type	Incendiary Exponent
Who Goes There? / int_d323d090	comment	Incendiary Exponent: The alien's spaceship is made of magnesium-alloy metal. It reacts... poorly... to the thermite-based attempts to enter it.
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Who Goes There? / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Who Goes There? / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: The Thing plays on the expectations of the researchers by acting in ways that seem self-destructive, but actually further its goals in the long run.
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Who Goes There? / int_d7f4e6e1	type	Mysterious Antarctica
Who Goes There? / int_d7f4e6e1	comment	Mysterious Antarctica: The setting, the only place the Thing could have landed and not taken over the Earth.
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Who Goes There? / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
Who Goes There? / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: The protagonists assume — incorrectly — that you can't be a Thing if you attack a Thing. As it turns out, its imitation is so good that it won't break character if another Thing gets outed, and will attack it just to keep up its own appearance. Once separated, every individual Thing has its own survival as its own priority. That's why the blood test works.
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Who Goes There? / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Who Goes There? / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The serum test Dr. Copper develops turns out to be useless in detecting humans because one of the human blood contributors was already a Thing and the Things didn't leave any other dogs to start over with.
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Who Goes There? / int_dfbb1685	type	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending
Who Goes There? / int_dfbb1685	comment	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending: Combines with The End... Or Is It?, as the Blair-Thing is killed, but there is a possibility another Thing might have escaped as an albatross. However, the characters discuss this possibility and decide that it is very unlikely, having shot the only albatross that they saw to prevent that.
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Who Goes There? / int_ea252ccf	type	Windows of the Soul
Who Goes There? / int_ea252ccf	comment	Windows of the Soul: When Connant looks the alien's original form in the eye, he decides that its favorite pastime was "torturing the local equivalent of kittens".
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Who Goes There? / int_ee19d278	type	Blob Monster
Who Goes There? / int_ee19d278	comment	Blob Monster: The Thing works like one in that it engulfs, digests, and absorbs its prey.
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Who Goes There? / int_f4d8ac92	type	The Assimilator
Who Goes There? / int_f4d8ac92	comment	The Assimilator: While the Thing can absorb people and create multiple copies, the creature is less like a virus and more of highly morphological plasticity. The Thing seems to envelop and digest organisms to copy them and grow more copies. The dogs are theorized to have bitten off pieces large enough that the pieces were still alive and could digest them from within.
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Who Goes There? / int_f51f3f54	type	Monster in the Ice
Who Goes There? / int_f51f3f54	comment	Monster in the Ice: And why it's a bad idea to thaw one out. To their credit, some of the base personnel want to do this in formalin, which probably would have killed it before it had a chance to revive. Blair dissuades them, arguing that it's almost certainly the last of its kind in the universe and that only a careful slow thaw will leave it amenable to proper study.
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Who Goes There? / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Who Goes There? / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Kinner, after Clark stabs him.
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Who Goes There? / int_fe0a8f04	type	Alien Hair
Who Goes There? / int_fe0a8f04	comment	Alien Hair: The creature has "blue hair like crawling worms".
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Who Goes There? / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Who Goes There? / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: A male example.
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Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Adaptation Sequence / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	American Literature (T to Z) / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Beware the Mind Reader / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Chromosome Casting / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Humans Are Ugly / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Impostor-Exposing Test / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Kill and Replace / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Laughing Mad / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Lightning Can Do Anything / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Mysterious Antarctica / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Nightmare Retardant / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Novella / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Questioning Title? / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Right Hand Versus Left Hand / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	Setting Update / int_39bf28dd
TheThing	seeAlso	Who Goes There?
Who Goes There?	hasFeature	This Was His True Form / int_39bf28dd
Who Goes There	seeAlso	Who Goes There?

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