"Who Goes There?" Rating: Five Planets
by John W. Campbell writing as Don A. Stuart  
pub. 1938  
collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA  
   
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In Antarctica an expedition discovers an ancient wrecked spaceship and a frozen alien. When the alien thaws, it demonstrates the capability to absorb and emulate any bein it comes into contact with.

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Atom BulletThis story was filmed twice as The Thing, in 1951 and in 1982.

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