Fanfiction done right. No one gets non-human sentience like Peter Watts. ( )

interesting short story about a biomass that is slowly invading earth. it may have helped if I had seen the movie to have a little reference for the story ( )

interesting short story about a biomass that is slowly invading earth. it may have helped if I had seen the movie to have a little reference for the story ( )

p cool short story, I won't ruin it. ( )

As the title promises, this is a replay of the standard "The Thing" scenario - a group of scientists working at a Polar base, find something long buried, which then awakens and goes on the rampage and must be stopped to save the world. The twist here is the nature of the "thing", hinted at in the title. A brilliantly inventive re-imagining of a tired cliche. ( )