The Thing Itself  

"I saw the John Carpenter film The Thing for the first time recently. That wasn't one of the VHS tapes they gave us, back then, to watch on the base. For obvious reasons. That's not what it was like for me at all. That doesn't capture it at all. They, or it, whatever, were not thing-y. They are inhuman. But this is only my dream of them, I think."

Author: Adam Roberts

Publisher: Gollancz

Released Date: 2016

ISBN: 9780575127739