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(As God is my witness, I started a novel where I had the same idea as Kings. I got my idea from an old Outer Limits story which had an alien putting a dome around a guy who tried to kill it. I thought about expanding it, and I had some of the same things happening when people in the small town came up against the edge of the dome as King does. Thank God I never continued with it. My writing group told me that my underlying theme was extremly anti semetic, and I had no idea they were right until I took another look at it. My idea was that a man who was like Jesus was killed on another planet after a brutal religous war. The leader of the opposition was a devil like person and the beings from that planet managed to capture him and put him into a small spaceship and blast him off of the planet. The spaceship was aimed to roam space and had two force fields on it. The first to ward off any debris that might hit it, and the second was inside the ship in case it ever landed. If it landed, a dome would deploy and cover a large area to try to keep the remains of this devil like person contained. In my story the spaceship does get deflected by something and it lands on earth. The dome inside the ship gets trigged and the town is trapped and people on the outside can't get in to help them. The devil like creature escapes and start to screw will all the people inside the dome. Anyway, I saw Kings synopsis and thought I would share this with you guys.) Tt
"On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mills, 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 select-woman, 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."
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Tt, I am a collector of horror films new and old (including B movies) and I have a movie somewhere in my collection that is on the same lines and it's not the Outer limits one that you mentioned. The one I have is something different. I know it's an older B&W movie. I'll see if i can weed it out and give you the title.
As for the book, it sounds really good. I'll be looking for it!
Thanks for looking that up Echo, it sounds kinda neat!
As for the book, I abandoned it. I only got a couple of rough chapters done when I presented it to the writing group. After being politely informed about the subtext I gave up on it. The last thing I wanted to do was sound like I was being racist or anti semetic. And in case you are wondering, my wirters group includes a priest and two very religious catholic lay people who are very involved with their churches, so when they explained to me why they felt the way they did, I not only believed them, I was actually shocked and embarrassed. I guess becuase of who I am, I just never thought about it or made the connection, it was just a story to me. I also mentioned to them that I once read a Ray Bradbury story where these astronauts would go to planet to planet and just miss Jesus being crucified and they were trying to get to a planet before it happened. That story always stuck with me and it also influenced the beginning of my dome story. I was glad I brought it up because we got into a neat discussion about how the catholic church feels about life on other planets and if they also had a Jesus. And even though I saw my novel idea go down in flames, it was the best writers club meeting I had attended.
And I want to point out that it was not anything overt that I wrote that was anti semetic, apparently it was all subtext. And everyone, all 6 people at the table, took great pains to explain to me why they felt the way they did. I can add though that they enjoyed the part of the story where the aliens were getting ready to blast the devil into outer space, they got a kick about how I described them and how they only had three fingers on each hand.
It was after I gave up on this novel that I started on my short story "Eyes" and started the kinda sequel to my first book. And it also led to me working on a short story called The Land which I showed the group last month and they thought it was the best stuff I have brought in to them.
Tony, with a few small tweaks, you could move the story away from the underlying anti-semitism and still produce a result similar to what you were originally looking for. While anyone who posts here could attest to your character, sometimes we do or say things that can be perceived by others in a context completely off from what we intended. So, I hope you don't scrap your story.
As for King, after his hugely disappointing short story collection, I will likely not read his new book unless reviews show that it is really good. He has strayed too far from good horror for too long, I doubt he can recapture what set him apart from the rest when he first started out. JMHO...
Thanks Undead, but there is no way I could finish this, its too close to what King is doing, and his version would beat mine to a pulp, no matter how bad his is.
I have deleted most of what I have did after that meeting, but I did print it out somewhere in case I ever want to borrow from it.
Besides, I've moved on and want to get back to my story The Land. I've got a long way to go on that one.
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I know where King got his idea from! (maybe TT, but...) The Simpsons! Don't suppose anyone saw the Simpsons Movie?? A dome was placed over Springfield due to a Homer screw up. King rips off the Simpson's, Doh!
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