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Who Goes There?
2020 · Film · short · 24 min
Directed by Astrid Thorvaldsen
Minnesota 1880: The trust of three Norwegian sisters is tested when a stranger appears on their prairie. When the eldest invites him in to heal her dying sister, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold.
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> I’d love to read more about how Campbell specialized in irritating Asimov
Campbell (John, not Joseph; you got the wrong Campbell) specialized in irritating lots of people.
First, he was one of Scientology's early advocated (Dianetics, actually), and all kinds of pseudoscientific ideas. Even other scifi authors thought this weird.
His pseudoscientific ideas obviously clashed with Asimov's atheist and rational mindset about the world.
Campbell also bought into bizarre scifi/racist/supremacist theories which were not well received by his fellow authors. He was very pushy and meddlesome as an editor -- that alone wasn't unusual in scifi & pulp magazines of the time -- but he was also obsessed about specific and weird directions that he insisted most stories he published must follow.
For example, Philip K. Dick didn't really like Campbell's insistence that most scifi stories must feature telepaths, and also that telepaths must be benevolent and superior and take over humanity. PKD thought this reminded him too much of Nazi "master race" theories, and didn't like Campbell as a result.
The one good thing in Campbell's record: he wrote "Who Goes There", the original story then turned into the "Thing" movies. The story is quite good, too!
1938 -- Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell Jr. In the story, scientists discover 20 Million year old space craft in Antarctica. They accidentally thaw the alien pilot who can kill and take on the personality of its victims. People are dying; no one trusts anyone, etc.
1951 -- The Thing From Another World, directed by Christian Nyby, is a sci-fi film in which scientists go to North Pole to investigate a UFO, find crashed craft and frozen alien. They take alien back to base and unintentionally let it thaw. (see above)
1982 -- The Thing a film directed by John Carpenter. Same basic story as above (but as in the original, the plot takes place in Antartica).
2011 -- The Thing a film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Same basic story again, but it is the prequel to the 1982 version.