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Short Things by Allan Cole, Paul Di Filippo, Pamela Sargent, John Gregory Betancourt, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Darrell Schweitzer, Mark McLaughlin, Alan Dean Foster, G.D. Falksen, Allen M. Steele, Kevin J. Anderson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

bloodstreamcity's review

2.0

What a missed opportunity. Being a massive fan of The Thing, I was a backer for the release of Frozen Hell, so I was obviously excited about the idea of some new short stories based on The Thing. But this collection missed the mark in ways I didn't know were possible. Some of them require bizarre mental gymnastics just to read them, like pretending everyone survived the events of the original movie, which apparently now happened in a completely different decade. Others are barely even related to The Thing at all. I don't usually rate books this low, but the disparity between what could have been and what we have is too great to ignore.