![]() In Dome (out in November), King serves up generous portions of materials science, nuclear physics, and medicine. King knows better than anyone the golden rule for horror and sci-fi: Make it as real as possible. ![]() King first tapped the Dartmouth-trained practitioner to help him fact-check the terrifying supervirus he'd conceived for The Stand. King called Russ Dorr, a physician's assistant in Merrimack, New Hampshire, who has been schooling him on everything from the smell of bone dust to the oozy quality of jellied blood since 1974. But the author didn't simply make up the gory details. ![]() In Under the Dome, Stephen King's 1,088-page saga of a small Maine town trapped suddenly inside an invisible, impenetrable force field, there's a vivid scene in which a surgical hole is drilled into a character's head. ![]()
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