Machias Banshee
02-16-2006, 01:41 PM
http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/01/CELL.jpg
http://www.cellthebook.com/index.htm
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.
There's also more information about it Here:
http://wearables.engadget.com/2006/01/24/to-reach-hell-press-stephen-kings-cell-hits-soon/
THIS sounds fascinating. Not only because of people basically getting turned into crazy zombie-like creatures, the Setting is in the Town that I Work in! I know all the places he mentions in the book! :D
It also makes us take a look at how dependent we are on technology, and how that dependency could be used to hurt us.
*Really wants to take a Workshop course with him*
http://www.cellthebook.com/index.htm
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.
There's also more information about it Here:
http://wearables.engadget.com/2006/01/24/to-reach-hell-press-stephen-kings-cell-hits-soon/
THIS sounds fascinating. Not only because of people basically getting turned into crazy zombie-like creatures, the Setting is in the Town that I Work in! I know all the places he mentions in the book! :D
It also makes us take a look at how dependent we are on technology, and how that dependency could be used to hurt us.
*Really wants to take a Workshop course with him*