TY - BOOK AU - King,Stephen TI - Cell: a novel SN - 9781501122248 AV - PS3561.I483 C38 2006 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Pocket Books KW - Cell phones KW - Fiction KW - Murderers KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcsh KW - Horror fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005057531-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005057531-s.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2005057531-b.html ER -