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Tune in to Captain Phil's Planet to find out about the Original story of The Thing, Who Goes There and the recently discovered novel by John W. Campbell Frozen Hell, soon to be published buy Wildside Press. Then stay tuned to hear from The Road with Science Fiction writer Gregory A Wilson as his band The Road releases their third CD Five Years Later This Friday in Cambridge Mass.

Also playing new music by The Tangent from their album Proxy. All this and more on Captain Phil's Planet!

John Betancourt is the publisher of Wildside Press, as well as a mystery and science fiction writer. One of his current projects is the publication of a recently discovered alternate draft of John W. Campbell's classic "Who Goes There?" (filmed as The Thing by John Carpenter). He funded the project with Kickstarter, and it became one of the largest crowd-funded publishing projects of the year, raising more than $155,000.
In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter's iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell's original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be shortened for publication. The Frozen Hell manuscript remained unknown and unpublished for decades, and it was only recently rediscovered. Frozen Hell expands the Thing story dramatically, giving vital backstory and context to an already incredible tale.

http://wildsidepress.com/

Gregory A. Wilson is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing and fantasy fiction along with various other courses in literature. His first academic book was published by Clemson University Press in 2007; on the creative side, he has won an award for a national playwriting contest, and his first novel, a work of fantasy entitled The Third Sign, was published by Gale Cengage in the summer of 2009. His second novel, Icarus, will be published as a graphic novel by Silence in the Library Publishing in 2016, and he has just signed a three book deal with The Ed Greenwood Group, which will be publishing his Gray Assassin Trilogy beginning with his third novel, Grayshade, in 2016. He has short stories out in various anthologies, including Time Traveled Tales from Silence in the Library, When The Villain Comes Home, edited by Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy, and Triumph Over Tragedy, alongside authors like Robert Silverberg and Marion Zimmer Bradley, and he has had three articles published in the SFWA Bulletin.

https://www.gregoryawilson.com
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