Let me preface this post with the following warning. I am a huge fan of Stephen King. I grew up with his books, reading many of them many times. I think I learned a great deal about how to be a better man from the voyages into the weird that I followed him on. Though the subject matter might have disturbed my grandmother, it was Mr. King’s descriptions of small town life and practical guy ethics that juiced the overhead light-bulb for me.
Mr. King has written some great science fiction. The Stand is the best post apocalyptic novel of all time in my estimation and Tommyknockers is among the very best close encounters books ever.
According to Stephen’s website, we are about to be treated to another epic. Here’s the official synopsis direct from his official site.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.
Over a thousand pages, “Under The Dome” is a rewrite of an idea he began working on in the 80′s. The book will be released for Xmas of this year. Thanks QuietEarth and thank you very much Mr. King.
