Review: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

"This story was one of my eternal pending" I feel like I say this sentence more than I should, but I just have so many classics left to read.

"Who Goes There?" or better known as "The Thing" after the movie, is a story by John W. Campbell published in 1938 and is about a group of researchers and scientists who are in Antarctica and come across a strange creature frozen in a block of ice. According to what these men believe the creature was frozen for more than 20 million years. It doesn't take them long to realize that it is an alien.

They decide to take it to their base to analyze it, and it is here when the doubts begin about whether they should thaw it or not. Because despite the number of years that have passed they are talking about an alien, and perhaps our natural laws do not apply to beings from other planets.

Paranoia will grip everyone when they discover that "the thing" was not completely dead. And everything will get worse when from an incident with the dogs they realize that the alien can take the form of other living beings.

The descriptions of the alien are truly amazing, we are told that its frozen face expresses the most intense hatred that any living thing could ever express.

This is the first time I read the author, I loved the story and at all times you can feel in the atmosphere that fear of not knowing what will happen to this creature.

Perhaps something I didn't like so much is that they could discover so much about the creature and its race in such a short time and without the necessary tools to do so. But that aside, it was an excellent story that I plan to reread in the future.