King’s The Dead Zone and The Stand foreshadowed the rise of Donald Trump and the current pandemic
, about a highly contagious, global virus that spawns a cottage industry of American opportunists willing to capitalize on its ubiquity. The author said he gets stopped on the street for that one now, too.
“My response is, ‘I’m sorry for that,'” he said. “But when I wrote it back in the Seventies, I just had this idea based on a chemical spill in Utah. And I went to a doctor that I knew, and I said, ‘Could you give me a scenario for a pandemic that wipes out 98% of the Earth’s population?’ And his eyes lit up. I mean, they love that sort of apocalyptic ‘what if’ scenario.”
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