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A remote scientific research expedition at the North Pole is invaded by a monstrous alien, reawakened after lying frozen for centuries after a crash-landing. The alien is intelligent, cunning and a shape-changer who can assume the form and personality of anything it destroys and soon it is among the men of the expedition, killing and replacing them, using its shape-changing ability to lull the scientists one by one into inattention and destruction. The transformed alien can seemingly pass every effort at detection and the expedition seems doomed until at last the secret vulnerability of the alien is discovered and it is destroyed.Who Goes There? according to the science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz (1920-1997) had an autobiographical impetus: Campbell's mother and aunt were identical twins and enjoyed the "game" of substituting for one another in his care as an infant and young chil
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- Title: Who Goes There?
- Author: John W. Campbell
- First published: 1948
- Genre: american science fiction, fiction, horror
- OpenLibrary ID: OL3892381W
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What is Who Goes There? about?
A remote scientific research expedition at the North Pole is invaded by a monstrous alien, reawakened after lying frozen for centuries after a crash-landing.
Who wrote Who Goes There??
Who Goes There? was written by John W. Campbell.
When was Who Goes There? published?
Who Goes There? was first published in 1948.
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