The government knowing there is no way of containing or developing a cure for the virus then has its agents (unknowingly) release the virus in the USSR, its satellite states and China to guarantee their destruction as well. The United States Army attempts to isolate Arnette, going so far as to execute civilians attempting to flee, but in vain the virus, christened the 'superflu' or 'Captain Trips', spreads across the country. Bystanders and ambulance workers become infected by the dying Campion and his dead wife and child. Security guard Charles Campion manages to escape before the facility is locked down and takes his family out of the state.Īfter a couple of days, his car crashes at a gas station in Arnette, Texas. The Complete and Uncut Edition includes a prologue detailing the development of the virus and the security breach that causes its accidental release. Department of Defense laboratory in northern California. Īn extremely contagious and lethal strain of influenza is developed as a biological weapon in a secret U.S. Another miniseries debuted on CBS All Access in December 2020, and finished airing in February 2021. From 2008 to 2012, Marvel Comics published a series of comics written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Mike Perkins. An eponymous miniseries based on the novel was broadcast on ABC in 1994. It has been included in lists of the best books of all time by Rolling Stone, Time, the Modern Library, Amazon and the BBC. The Stand was highly appreciated by reviewers and is considered one of King's best novels. The Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand is Stephen King's longest stand-alone work at 1,152 pages, surpassing his 1,138-page novel It. King restored over 400 pages from texts that were initially reduced from his original manuscript, revised the order of the chapters, shifted the novel's setting from 1980 to 10 years forward, and accordingly corrected a number of cultural references. In 1990, The Stand was reprinted as a Complete and Uncut Edition. The book was difficult for him to write because of the large number of characters and storylines. King started writing the story in February 1975, seeking to create an epic in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other. The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday.

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