01584cam a2200265 4500 121307786 TxAuBib 20060208120000.0 051205s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005057531 9780743292337 0743292332 9780743292337 DLC DLC YDX AOP TxAuBib King, Stephen, 1947- Cell [HC] : a novel / Stephen King. New York : Scribner, 2006. 355, 12 p. ; 25 cm. 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. 20060208. Cellular telephones Fiction. Murderers Fiction. Horror fiction. Psychological fiction.