num_pages: 196
description: It fell from the sky and lay buried in ice for 100,000 years.Soon it will be free...TWELVE MENTrapped in the Antarctic.ELEVENDiscover the intruder.TENBattle the alien force.NINEAgonise for the answer.EIGHTDesperate to be spared.SEVENConsumed one by one.SIX...FIVE...FOUR...THREE...They will all die.Unless something, anything stops...THE THING-----------------------------Novelization by American author Alan Dean Foster of screenplay to the 1982 Hollywood film The Thing directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster, based on the short story 
  Who Goes There?
 by John W. Campbell, Jr.
language: English
title: The Thing
titlecomplete: The Thing
genres: Aliens, Film, Science Fiction, Media Tie In, Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Action, Fiction
ratings_count: 1007
publisher: Bantam Books