Who Goes There? and Other Stories
A Fiction, Horror, Short Stories book. Niente che la Terra abbia mai generato ha provato l'indicibile sublimazione di furia...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 230 pages
- ISBN: 9780899667348 / 899667341
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Niente che la Terra abbia mai generato ha provato l'indicibile sublimazione di furia devastatrice che questa cosa lasci scatenare sul proprio volto quando si guard intorno venti milioni di anni fa e si vide circondata dalla desolazione e dal ghiaccio. John W. Campbell Jr., Who Goes There? and Other Stories // Quel posto puzzava. Un odore bizzarro e composito, come pu esserci soltanto nelle baracche sepolte nel ghiaccio di un accampamento antartico, un misto di fetido sudore umano, e dell'afrore ammorbante d'olio di pesce ricavato dal grasso di foca sciolto. Un vago sentore di linimento combatteva l'odore muffito delle pellicce infradiciate dal sudore e dalla neve. Il sentore acre del grasso alimentare bruciato, e l'odore animale e non del tutto sgradevole dei cani, diluito dal tempo, aleggiavano nell'aria.Gli odori residui dell'olio da macchina contrastavano...
I've only read the title story online (the book is surprisingly hard to find.) I had heard the ultra-squeamish and still nightmare-inducing John Carpenter flick The Thing was more faithful to this, its source material, than the 1950's film version. I haven't seen The Thing From Another World so I can't say. And by the way, am I or am... John Wood Campbell (1910 1971) is best known as the editor of Analog Magazine from 1937 (as Astounding Magazine) until his death, although he was so important at that time that he is often credited as the shaper of the so-called Golden Age of SF, being the nurturer of Robert Heinlein, A.E. van Vogt, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp... As much as I like the originality of these stories, I find them very talky. That is to say, the characters spend a great deal of time standing around talking about whatever is happening to them. I loved the movie version of "Who Goes There?" (John Carpenter's "The Thing"); it's very action-packed. The short story seems less action-packed...
