#John W. Campbell Jr

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: The Moon is Hell! by John W. Campbell, Jr. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1951. First Edition.

[cultfaction]

Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 123: The Thing

In this weeks episode we turn our spotlight on the John Carpenter horror/sci-fi classic The Thing! https://cultfaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ep23.mp3  

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Illustration by John Schoenherr

[gaargoyle]

Various depictions of The Thing from covers of editions of Who Goes There?, the original novella (and Frozen Hell, the full-length novel version).

Artists in order: Hannes Bok, Terry Maloney, Malcolm Smith, Chet Jezierski, Stan Pitt, Bob Eggleton (final 2)

See below the cut for bonus comic book Thing, by Arnold Drake and Jack Abel:

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"HELL, I'VE HAD BAD DREAMS EVER SINCE I LOOKED AT THOSE THREE RED EYES."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on pulp cover art to "Who Goes There?," the 1938 sci-fi novella written by John W. Campbell, Jr., and which would later be immortalized on film as John Carpenters "The Thing" in 1982. Artist unknown/undisclosed.

"...They haven't seen those three red eyes and the blue hair like crawling worms. Crawling -- damn, it's crawling there in the ice right now! "Nothing Earth ever spawned had the unutterable sublimation of devastating wrath that thing let loose in its face when it looked around this frozen desolation twenty million years ago. Mad? It was mad clear through -- searing, blistering mad!" Hell, I've had bad dreams ever since I looked at those three red eyes. Nightmares. Dreaming the thing thawed out and came to life -- that it wasn't dead, or even wholly unconscious all those 20 million years, but just slowed, waiting -- waiting. You'll dream, too, while that damned Thing that Earth wouldn't own is dripping, dripping in the Cosmos House tonight."

-- "Who Goes There?" (1938), Chapter 2, written by John W. Campbell (1910-1971)

Source: https://pechorinsjournal.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/who-goes-there-by-john-w-campbell-jr.

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[fukutomichi]

- Favorite Film Gems - "It's like a virus. So what do we do with any virus? Quarantine. We isolate it and then we kill it." The Thing (2011) directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.

[theadaptableeducator]

The Adaptable Educator's Book Reviews - Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.

John W. Campbell Jr.’s novella, Who Goes There? (1938), is a cornerstone of science fiction, encapsulating the genre’s mid-20th-century preoccupations with identity, paranoia, and the fragility of human understanding. Beneath its gripping narrative of isolation and alien invasion lies a complex interrogation of trust, the boundaries of self, and the mechanisms of survival when humanity is…

[billlaotian]

[jesslovesboats]

Hello friends, I am back with more reading recommendations for your agonies! Next up we have the long awaited and much requested Sad Boat Fiction list. As with all of my lists, this is NOT exhaustive and there WILL be great books left off, and also you may or may not like these books! I only rec things that I've personally enjoyed or that come highly recommended by trusted friends, but taste in books is incredibly subjective, especially with fiction. If I missed your favorite, please add it in the comments or drop it in my DMs!

Now that I'm feeling more settled in my new job, I will hopefully have a lot more time to make book lists and do more virtual Readers' Advisory. I have lists in the works for women in polar exploration and companion reads for the HBO War series, but if there's something else you would love to see, please send me a message!

Classics of the Genre

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Media Tie-Ins

Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing) by John W. Campbell, Jr.

The North Water by Ian McGuire

Cold Skin by Alfred Sánchez Piñol

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Graphic Novels

Whiteout by Greg Rucka

How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*

*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately

Science Fiction

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson

Romance

Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

My Last Continent by Midge Raymond

Inspired by the Terra Nova Expedition

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge

Terra Nova: A Play by Ted Tally

Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur

*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately

Inspired by the Franklin Expedition

The Rifles by William T. Vollmann

Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

On the Proper Use of Stars by Dominique Fortier

Literary Fiction

The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

Inspired by the Classics

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Modern Day Antarctica

How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior

South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Polar and Nautical Horror

Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Cold Earth by Sarah Moss

The Deep by Nick Cutter

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry

The Deep by Alma Katsu

Happy reading!

[gallium-spoon]

Spooky season has come to an end, it is therefore time for the October reading report!

Book I finished this month:

Who Goes There by John W Campbell Jr (read the last 65 pages)

Books I read this month:

The Things by Peter Watts (25 pages)

Boomtown by Sarah MK Palmer (35 pages)

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (370 pages)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (450 pages)

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (350 pages)

Wavewalker by Suzanne Haywood (415 pages) (non fiction)

Books I started this month:

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (I read 400 pages)

Dang I read over 2,000 pages this month!

I've been posting a lot about the Locked Tomb books because I kinda stumbled right into the (cow wall) fandom, but I also especially enjoyed Boomtown: short, spooky, and captured the strange sense of isolation and longing one finds in small rural towns. And Wavewalker, a memoir about growing up isolated by deeply selfish parents

[mysteryideasgroup]

MSA X TMNT 2012: Buried Secrets

Mystery Teams and TMNT with April and Casey discovered that April's Farmhouse has the basement of Kraang Lab Ship. They find April's Long-lost Mom, Mrs./Ms. O'Neil. Later, they had to realize that something had happened to them. They have realized that something is wrong, they think it’s not real "Mrs./Ms. O'Neil", and believe it's Mom-Thing! 

Mikey and the rest of the Mystery Teams suspect that Mrs. O'Neil may not be who she appears to be. 

Trivia like Horror Movies, Novels, Games of The Thing/The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31/Who Goes There? by John Carpenter and John W. Campbell Jr have Horror Writers and Movies 

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[bookmaven]

TWO SOUGHT ADVENTURE by Fritz Leiber (New York, Gnome, 1957) Cover art by Lionel Dillon. First printing has black boards with red lettering. [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser]

Originally appeared in UNKNOWN, August 1939 [v1 #6] edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

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[brokehorrorfan]

The Thing (2011) will be released on Steelbook Blu-ray exclusively at Walmart ($19.96) on April 18 via Mill Creek Entertainment. The sci-fi horror film serves as a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, itself based on John W. Campbell’s 1938 novella Who Goes There?

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. directs from a script by Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Lights Out). Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Eric Christian Olsen star.

A semi-transparent slipcover is included. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full Steelbook layout.

Special features:

Audio commentary with director Matthijs van Heijningen and producer Eric Newman

Who Goes There? Cast & Crew featurette (new)

What Goes There? Behind-the-Scenes featurette (new)

The Thing Evolves - Making-of featurette

Fire & Ice - Stunts featurette

Theatrical trailer

When paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.

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