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Overview

Date of Birth:

8 June 1910, Newark, New Jersey, USA more

Date of Death:

11 July 1971, Mountainside, New Jersey, USA more

Trivia:

Known to have helped invent "hard science fiction", a genre ever-increasingly... more

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NewsDesk:
(14 articles)

Universal Wants To Do The Right Thing
(From HollywoodNorthReport.com. 31 May 2009, 5:09 AM, PDT)
Battlestar 's Moore Talks Thing Prequel
(From shocktillyoudrop. 17 March 2009)

Alternate Names:

Don A. Stuart

Filmography

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The Thing (2010) (pre-production) (short story)
The Thing (1982) (story "Who Goes There?")
... aka John Carpenter's The Thing (USA: complete title)
"Tales of Tomorrow" (1 episode, 1952)
- The Machine (1952) TV episode (story)
The Thing from Another World (1951) (story "Who Goes There?")
... aka The Thing (USA: short title)

Thanks:

The Thing (2002) (VG) (inspiration: story "Who Goes There?")

Additional Details

Other Works:

Editor (as John W. Campbell) of "Analogue One", a book of short stories by: Lloyd Biggle Gordon Dickson, Sterling E. Lanier, Teddy Keller, Leigh Richmond, T.R. Fehrenbach, Winston P. Sanders and Christopher Anvil (Panther Science Fiction) more

Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Mystery

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Explosion | Gore | Snow more

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