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Both Cell and Lisey's Story to arrive in 2006

BevVincentBevVincent
edited September 2005 in General news
Hi



Huge news today! Scribner has announced the following publication schedule for Stephen's forthcoming novels:



Cell is to be released in February 2006

Lisey's Story will be released in November 2006



Lilja

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Comments

  • BevVincentBevVincent
    From King's message board:



    There is now an anticipated release schedule of January (rather than Feb.) for Cell and Oct. (rather than Nov.) for Lisey’s Story.
  • DTUKDTUK
    Can't wait! :)
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    FROM THE PUBLISHER

    Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone.

    What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on.



    CELL is classic Stephen King, a story of gory horror and white-knuckling suspense that makes the unimaginable entirely plausible and totally fascinating.
  • jhanicjhanic
    Mouthwatering! ;D



    John
  • DTUKDTUK
    Thanks for that tidbit, Bev - sounds very good :)



    Already have my copy ordered.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
  • BluGilliandBluGilliand
    Oh. That. Is. Awesome.



    Blu
  • DTUKDTUK
    WOW!! - really love that cover.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Here is King's publicist's descriptions of his two 2006 books:

    On January 24, 2006 we publish CELL. A guilty pleasure in the tradition of Carrie, Salem's Lot and The Shining, CELL asks what happens when cell phones become transmitters of a signal that drive people instantly mad and violent. King's plot gallops as a few phoneless heroes try to escape the mayhem everywhere and save the world.



    Stephen King does not have a cell phone.



    On October 24, 2006 we publish LISEY'S STORY. Possibly King's most ambitious and accomplished book ever, it's a profoundly moving and disturbing novel about a widow coping with the loss of her writer husband. It's a grand, ambitious and layered book, with unrelenting emotional power. It's a book for the ages - exploring the dark secrets of the ones we love, and the very wellsprings of creativity.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Lilja sent me this variation of the CELL description from Hodder & Stoughton

    Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory. The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane.



    A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone…
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