Stephen King’s Under The Dome Cover Art

If you are like me and dream of someday stalking Mr. King until, desperate to expunge his nightmares of my torment he is forced to write a book about me, then you too are eagerly awaiting his soon to be bitchin new novel “Under The Dome”.

Under The Dome will be, I am told from excellent sources (gophers) a ridiculously awesome story of a town rendered isolated by a giant dome of crazy Sci-Fi origins. Inside are the usual frightened small town group of folks Mr. King writes about so well. The book is going to be huge and stressy, along the lines of The Stand. A book that really floated my boat. I look to Under The Dome for further boat floatage. Steve has been kind of aiming his pitches lately, he needs to get back to basics and for him that means, epic, weird and long. I am the faithful reader ladies and gentleman of the Sci-Fi community, in this you can be assured. I have for you a first look at the cover of Under The Dome, a work that will apparently be unveiled in pieces from the very mind of the master, Mr. King. Thanks Quiet Earth for this news.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, 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 selectwoman, 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.