![]() ![]() > 9 Yes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and "The Thing from Another World' are usually paired as being classic 1950s cold-war paranoia films, but that can't be, given the 1938 date. Highlights included the emphasis on the way characters would look at each other under the conditions of horrified suspicion, and the grudge about the cannibalized privy door. Of course, we're approaching this in the context of weird horror rather than SF adventure. I agree that Campbell's "happy" ending leaves something to be desired. ![]() I don't know if it has to do with increasing skepticism, or whether it becomes obsoleted by the exteriorization of mental phenomena in cyberspace. I've seen this attitude in fiction as late as the 1970s, but after that it seems to evaporate. In both cases, the sfnal approach seemed to be rather "hard," and mind-to-mind communication was taken to be a parapsychological phenomenon as good as proven, if not yet controlled by 20th-century humans. One thing the two stories had in common was the crucial use of telepathy. "Who Goes There?" is the second novella collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A, and since I wasn't familiar with the first one, I read it too: "Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson. ![]()
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