![]() ![]() It’s more like King peeked into an alternate reality where these digital comforts took full control of our lives, turning us into husks fueled by a hungry groupthink. Of course, the book came out in 2006, so MySpace and Facebook were already on the rise. ![]() ![]() But it’s in Cell that a zombie outbreak - one you’d least expect outside the pages of science fiction - really is front and center.Īlthough perhaps it isn’t my favorite King novel - it runs a bit too long, in my opinion - I do admire the way King turned the zombie genre on its head, building on themes of technophobia and fatherhood (you’ll find that many King books that deal with the latter theme) to create a sprawling narrative that sort of foretold the hivemind-like fanaticism towards social media that we see today. Sure, he’s written zombies before: in “Home Delivery,” he wrote a bit of a zombie love story (it’s a good read in Nightmares & Dreamscapes), and you could call the Slow Mutants in The Dark Tower series that universe’s version of the undead. Today marks the VOD release of the film adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell, a book that stands out as the writer’s first and only novel-length zombie story to date. ![]()
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