Pub date and plot

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Kingunlucky

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Soooooo its kinda like Y The Last Man but all the women are gone instead of all the men?

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When I finished End of Watch last year, it made me think that 2017 would be the first year that I did not have a Stephen King book to look forward to. He has been a part of my life since 1985.

This news makes me very, very happy. Thank you Mr King (and son).
 

RichardX

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I remember King talking about a short story that he thought about writing after being at the airport. His wife apparently went to the bathroom and as King stood waiting for her another man's wife went into the bathroom. So King and this guy stood outside waiting for their wives to come out. King said a plot occurred to him at that point about what would happen if women going into the bathroom but never came out (or something along those lines) but he could never figure it out himself. That sounds a bit along the lines of the plot here.
 

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I remember King talking about a short story that he thought about writing after being at the airport. His wife apparently went to the bathroom and as King stood waiting for her another man's wife went into the bathroom. So King and this guy stood outside waiting for their wives to come out. King said a plot occurred to him at that point about what would happen if women going into the bathroom but never came out (or something along those lines) but he could never figure it out himself. That sounds a bit along the lines of the plot here.
Different story. He's still thinking about writing that one.
 

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We've had an official update from Scribner and Hodder. Pub date has been set as September 26th. Here's the more detailed information about the plot:

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place...

The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?

Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.​
 

DiO'Bolic

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We've had an official update from Scribner and Hodder. Pub date has been set as September 26th. Here's the more detailed information about the plot:

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place...

The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?

Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.​
I experience the same phenomena from the womenfolk in my household if I Inadvertently wake any of them too early in the morning. :)