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The Andromeda StrainSeries
series2 books1969
About plague and pandemic.
“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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DreamcatcherNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2001
Alien invasion, about aliens and friendship, set in north america.
“According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer.”
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FirestarterNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1980
Thriller & suspense, about psychic powers and parenthood, set in north america.
“WorldCat: Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror...”
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Jerusalem's LotSeries
series3 books1975
About vampires, set in small town and our world.
“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
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CellNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006
Post-apocalyptic, about plague and pandemic, set in our world and north america.
“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
About political intrigue and aliens, set in far future.
“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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