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    Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction

    Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life

    Broadway Brings Back Carrie's Bloody Prom And The Addams Family

    American Vampire's Snyder Introduces Our Secret Toothy Cousins

    New Book Trailer Shows What Bloody Deeds Happen Under Stephen King's Big Dome

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    Image of Insomnia Bob Insomnia Bob
    11/21/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    This premise of the invisible dome that cuts off a small town is almost verbatim the plot of a little known comic series called 'Girls' that hit selves a few years back.
    ...wonder if King read it?
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    I sometimes feel I'm the only person alive that thought Watchmen was a fine length and didnt want it any longer.
    The comic was at least 50% filler and benefited a lot from being trimmed down.

    In general, Id love more miniseries like this though.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    The best Reason to Write Science Fiction:

    Simply put it is the best type of literature in the world !!!
    And that is why we are all here on io9 cause we love scifi
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    I liked it the first time it was made and called "Bio-Dome".
    That movie was TERRIFYING.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/20/09

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    I appreciate where he's coming from. I do feel slightly guilty that I get a lot of my reading from the library rather than supporting the authors by buying their works, but if I bought every book I wanted to read I'd be living in a box overtop a steam grate.
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    They made a mistake. This should be being done for The Dark Tower, not this new-fangled one.
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    Image of bookling bookling
    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    I haven't even finished the book yet, but it could make a fabulous mini-series. I was already thinking of the scenes that would have to be cut out for network TV, but then I re-read the story and saw that it's HBO. Awesome!
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    Yeah! A Travis McGee/John D. MacDonald reference.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/20/09

    @Strick:
    Because a good mystery is a god damned good read.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/20/09

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    I was expecting this to be "I'm swimming in trim" but this is better.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/20/09

    @OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: That is actually the best reason to write vampire novels.
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    @Perhaps Not: That makes me go to a weird place regarding Stephanie Meyer.
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    11/20/09

    @Perhaps Not: Please please please don't be targeting the Tw-*ahem* demographic. I don't want to call Chris Hansen.
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    11/20/09

    @#c16980943: Actually, a bunch of girls I know who LOVE those books are in their 20's and older. Fair game!
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    Image of starjade starjade
    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: No Anne Rice?
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/21/09

    @starjade: Heh. Anne Rice of old? I could see that. Anne Rice today? Weird, weird place.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    If I read a really good book I use a hundred dollar bill as a bookmarker so I can pretend that everytime I close the book, the author gets paid.
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    Image of CColdsmoke CColdsmoke
    11/20/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: @crashedpc - Haifisch: Mind if I borrow some of your really good books?
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    11/20/09

    @CColdsmoke: Oh, sure... *hands over New Moon*

    HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAAAAAAAA...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    Oh for the love of Buddha... stop it with the "Simpsons did it" crap. I was tired of seeing it on the first article about this book. Truth be told, King had been writing this long before anyone from The Simpsons thought of the idea. "King did it!" X-(
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    11/20/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Well duh King did it first. Can't stop us from cracking a joke and having a little fun with it.
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    Image of ImFeedingMattDamon ImFeedingMattDamon
    11/20/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Bless you.
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    Image of krztov krztov
    11/20/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: uh king released the book this year, simpsons movie was what, 3 years ago now? even if (based on the wiki) first draft one done in late 08, thats still over a year after simpsons movie.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/20/09

    @krztov: Actually, Stephen King's been fleshing out this story since the late 70's. He's got the original rough drafts to prove it - which he put up on his website as soon as he heard about the main plotpoint of the Simpsons movie - but don't let facts get in the way.
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    11/20/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Thank youuu. It was kind of funny when the book was first announced, but now it's getting old. Not to mention that even if King HAD snagged the idea from The Simpsons, it would still be a very different story. Not to mention that King's been working on the story since before The Simpsons was on the air!
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/20/09

    He may have thought of it first, but the Simpsons *did* it first.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/20/09

    @AngryEddy: I don't think anyone is saying he actually saying he stole it from the Simpsons. It's just a coincidence. And if you remember the South Park episode, part of the point was that The Simpsons take from others (Twilight Zone, etc)
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/20/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Not to rain on everybody's parade, but I think the original drafts of Under the Dome (which is great) are set in an inescapable apartment building.

    That doesn't change things; he's still the uncontested master of the 12-page crawl across 10 feet of broken glass to the gun with one rusty bullet left in it. Even if he did get the idea from the Simpsons movie, so what? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Matrix are both about the Chosen One who can save us from unknowable terrors that lurk just outside our sunny simulacra. They're both great.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/20/09

    @AngryEddy: The domed city is as old as science fiction. It doesn't matter who used the device first since every author who has ever used it for the last 50 years has had a different tone and purpose. When the device was used in the Simpsons movie it was broad satire about government bureaucracy run amok which is obviously not King's intention.
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    11/20/09

    @Wookie1972: Actually Mark Tigan did it first when he proposed a dome for the city of Winooski, Vermont as a way of controlling winter heating bills. Stephen King probably got his idea from this article in Time Magazine in 1979 -- [www.time.com]
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    This is the impetus I need to finally crack open that beast of a book that's been sitting on my coffee table.

    Starting a 1,000-page opus is always a little daunting. But if I don't read it, how else can I moan about poor casting decisions and gripe about what they cut out or changed?
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    Image of OgreNUT OgreNUT
    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: This is the Internet... You don't need facts or reason to back up an argument.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: You'll be done with it in two weeks. It moves SO fast.
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    @OgreNUT: You're wrong!

    Oh, wait ... I just proved your point, didn't I?

    #calendar
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    @Perhaps Not: Or possibly less! If I provide my husband with an equally gripping book, we can spend the whole weekend on the couch, reading. Truly, it's the American dream.

    #calendar
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    Image of Agent355 Agent355
    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: Oh, that sounds heavenly! I wish I could get my husband to crack open a book.
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    @Agent355: It's heavenly until we're out of sync. As in, I've just finished a great book but haven't committed to the next one yet, but he's in the middle of his book. Then I want to watch TV or converse, but he just wants to read. Or vice versa. But I suppose if that's all I have to complain about in a marriage, I'm pretty lucky.
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    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: Yeah, that happens to us, too. She's reading "The Great Gatsby," I'm reading "Infinite Jest."
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    @Perhaps Not: And no doubt she'll be able to finish the entire Fitzgerald oeuvre (along with Zelda, too!), while you're still plugging away on yours.

    I actually picked up "Infinite Jest" at a rummage sale last weekend, because it's long been a "shoulda read it" book for me. Maybe I'll tackle that after "Under the Dome."
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    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: It's problematic but totally good. Be warned, it's incredi-dense, which will either make you go, "I don't have time for this," or "Oh yeah? I bet I can read it AND understand it! What about that, DFW?"

    And of course, much of it is bust-a-gut funny.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    Both Richard Matheson devotees? Both lovers of stories about adventurous children confronting horrible monsters? Both masters of long-form narrative who should have been working together for years?

    I predict greatness.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life
    May I be the first one to say "Woo!" and might I add "Hoo!"? ^_^ This is gonna be brilliant!
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    Image of cletar cletar
    11/17/09

    In reply to Broadway Brings Back Carrie's Bloody Prom And The Addams Family
    So, apparently there's a law now requiring Nathan Lane in every Broadway production? #carrie
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/17/09

    @cletar: That law has been on the books for a while. #carrie
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    11/18/09

    @Annalee Newitz: It's actually illegal to not at least consult him on any production that has a musical number in it. Joss Whedon had him perform a blessing on the script for the Buffy musical episode before it was filmed.
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