The perfect pair

US writers Stephen King and his son, Owen King, team up for this horror novel, that imagines a world where all women have fallen asleep, transported to a peaceful alternate reality.

It takes place in an Appalachian town as an epidemic occurs where women suddenly enter comas within cocoon-like material, and turn violent if they’re wakened. The only person immune to it is Eve Black, a mysterious figure who becomes coveted by different factions in a world filled only with men.

isn’t the duo’s first collaboration. Owen told the story of being a child talking about GI Joe toys with his dad and coming up with the idea of a GI Joe character who could read minds. They also delved into Stephen’s beginnings with 1974’s his first published novel.

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