4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this novelization of the Thing. It had more backstory for all the characters, which helped explain a little more about what I saw in the movie. It was based on the screenplay, and like others have commented, it might have been an earlier version that had different scenes and plot lines. It was nice to see more fleshed out profiles of Nauls, Palmer and Childs, since they were more one-dimensional in the film. Some of the story was different, but it wasn’t worse or better. I’m happy to have read it.