Foster does try to add his own perspective and sensibilities to the book and with some success. Incidentally most will agree that The Thing was also the pinnacle of what can be done with special makeup effects.In either case, the novelization is a rather bland version of an otherwise psychologically sound and scary script. Chances are this is not the result of Foster's choices but most likely a mandate from the producers. None of which can be found in this novelization by Alan Dean Foster. Based on an original short-story by the name Who Goes There? the movie The Thing from 1982 is perhaps the ultimate test and triumph of psychological terror on film. Fans of the movie might find this both refreshing and annoying.Briefly: members of a science outpost at the South Pole discover an alien species capable of mimicking any life form it encounters, which it does unannounced and with devastating results. In the case of The Thing we're stuck with a book that is based on the original script for the film, not the shooting script. About book: Novelizations of movies are always precarious reads, especially in this case where the novel was written after a script that was created from a long lineage of novels.
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