Can't wait I am a huge fan and eave everything he has written.

Wasn't the whole DOME thing, the plot of the SIMPSONS movie?

I like the story better when it was written by Robert McCammon and it was called "Stinger"

It's been done, by McCammon and also by Lonsdale in The Drive-In. Doesn't sound too scary either.

Agreed it's not a new idea. It also happens in Village of the Damned but King has a way of making anything seem fresh. That's why he remains the most read man on the planet (hyperbole intended for emphasis) ;)

also sounds like that "1432" series of novels. a manufactured space bubble from the deep future lands on a small present day american town, and transports it thru time and space to the middle of the 100 Years War in medieval Germany. scrappy band of survivors, political intrigue, the whole bit. surprisingly not as dopey as it sounds.

I also remember a novel quite a while back called Zoo Event, where a black dome covers a town and the dome is gradually closing in.

In Grof Conclins' "Golden age of science fiction" there was a story along the same lines... it was told through the diary of a long dead person trapped inside a similar dome...

In Greg Egan's 'Quarantine' the entire solar system is put in an opaque dome by unseen aliens because humans keep destroying multiverses by collapsing quantum probability waves *just by looking up at night*.

Look, screw Stephen King. Is this the best he can come up with? He just watched Rahxephon and decided he can just turn out another live-action abortion? NONE of King's works have translated well to the screen - at least, not compared to his literary works. Can someone just persuade William Gibson to do a movie set in the Sprawl? I mean, they got Bucky Domes and the Panther Moderns.

It's also been done by The Simpsons, technically. The line "Day 31 under the dome..."

Someone already made a cheesy movie about this in the 70s, though I can't remember the title. The dome thing has been done countless times before in comics, short stories, movies, and novels over the last 50 years before being invented by Stephen King. It's as if someone had a time machine and was stealing ideas from him in the future!

i dont care if it has been done before, i read everything he writes. stephen king books are the only ones that have me at the bookstore at opening time the day they are released.

I remember a movie from the 70's that had a similar plot. Wish I could remember the name.

Find me a decent plot device that has truly been done only once.

Or launch your own highly successfuly literary career.

Or shut up and color.

This one's going to be sweeeet!