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nedfrosset i 20 millioner år. Da de smelter isen omkring det med en termitbombe, kommer de til at sætte ild på skibets magnesiumskrog og slipper kun væk fra infernoet ved at være heldige. Heldet slipper til gengæld op, da de opdager en passager fra skibet og tør ham op. Det viser sig at være et uhyre, der kan imitere andre livsformer uhyggeligt godt og er god til at dele sig. Det koster ekspeditionen alle dyr og 14 af menneskene før alle eksemplarer er udryddede. Til gengæld får de fingre i en antityngdekraftsrygsæk som det sidste uhyre var lige ved at lægge sidste hånd på, da det blev opdaget og nedkæmpet."Blindness" handler om ???
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Publication
Tandem (1966), Paperback
Description
A group of scientists. An object buried under the ice. A terrifying fight for survival. When a group of scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica, stumble across an alien spaceship buried in the ice it seems like an incredible opportunity. The alien pilot can just be seen - a shadowy figure frozen just a short depth into the ice. It looks as though he survived the crash only to be flash-frozen on the Antarctic plateau. The team fight the frozen conditions to free the ship from the ice - with disastrous consequences - and rescue the alien. As they transport the corpse, one of their greatest finds, out on the ice back to their camp, several scientists begin to experience extraordinary, vivid and unsettling dreams. They're dismissed as the product of stress and the harsh conditions ... but the nightmare is only beginning.… (more)
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LibraryThing member yarriofultramar
An interesting story, inspiring for RPG. For some reason it proved a bit hard for me to follow. Although interesting, my eyes were glazing over after few pages. I guess it because English is not my native language. Still, I am glad that I read this classic.
LibraryThing member Gateaupain
A classic creepy, long before the film
LibraryThing member stefferoo
John Carpenter's The Thing is probably my favorite horror creature movie of all time. I'm so glad I finally got the chance to read the story that it was based on.
LibraryThing member rmagahiz
I think the strange-sounding dialogue and the clunky infodumps were what readers of the pulps expected at the time. I had a little trouble suspending my disbelief through some of the sections where they were attempting to apply logic to figure out who was human and who was monster. The short action
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scenes were quite good, however, raising this tale from being only a historical novelty to me. Show Less
LibraryThing member martinhughharvey
I liked "The Ting" movie and this was a pleasant and very short read.
LibraryThing member KelMunger
There's a reason this film had to be remade: The abject terror of having people--and critters--you know and love completely taken over down to a cellular level can't be approximated by any other kind of monstrosity. This is in many ways a rape fable; the invasion is so personal that it's impossible
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to be anything but outraged, repulsed and terrified. Show Less
LibraryThing member steve12553
Wonderful story that spawned two very different but excellent films made nearly thirty years apart.
LibraryThing member isabelx
An unbearable violet flame leaped suddenly in the skies, shrieking a thousand feet in the air. A rain of black metal separated from a solid clump to spread in a long, stretching line that reached down and down in masses to the waiting earth. It settled at the base of a giant rock, finally, as a
I started reading this book in late October, as it starts with a a science fiction/horror novella suitable for Hallowe'en. I liked the the solution that the men came up with for identifying which people and animals were actually clones of the monster. It was much cleverer than the solution in the 1950s film adaptation "The Thing From Another Planet", which was changed to something much easier to understand. I'm going to try to see the 1980s version "The Thing", as that is supposed to be a very good film.
I enjoyed all the stories in this book except "Blindness" which was a bit too physics heavy for me, but my favourites were "Who Goes There?", "Frictional Losses" and "Elimination".
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second long rain of metal reached down and down.I started reading this book in late October, as it starts with a a science fiction/horror novella suitable for Hallowe'en. I liked the the solution that the men came up with for identifying which people and animals were actually clones of the monster. It was much cleverer than the solution in the 1950s film adaptation "The Thing From Another Planet", which was changed to something much easier to understand. I'm going to try to see the 1980s version "The Thing", as that is supposed to be a very good film.
I enjoyed all the stories in this book except "Blindness" which was a bit too physics heavy for me, but my favourites were "Who Goes There?", "Frictional Losses" and "Elimination".
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1948
Physical description
220 p.; 18.1 cm
Local notes
Omslag: Ikke angivet
Omslaget viser noget med tre øjne. Det hele ser ud til at være lavet af modellervoks
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Omslaget viser noget med tre øjne. Det hele ser ud til at være lavet af modellervoks
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
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Pages
220
DDC/MDS
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