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''Under the Dome'' is a 2009 novel written by [[Stephen King]].▼
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▲'''''Under the Dome''''' is a 2009 novel written by [[Stephen King]].
After a rural Maine town finds itself suddenly enclosed inside a mysterious and almost impenetrable barrier, a [[Complete Monster|power-hungry selectman]] launches plans to take over the town while others try to avoid his wrath and find out what created the barrier. Looked at as an allegory, it comes off as unsubtle, with hints of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], but taken as a straight story, is surprisingly fast-paced and touching given the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] it has to handle.
A [[Under the Dome (TV series)|cable miniseries adaptation]] aired on [[CBS]] between 2013 and 2015, with King and [[Steven Spielberg]] as executive producers.
Not to be confused with [[Under the Dome (film)|the 2015 Chinese documentary film]] or [[Under the Dome (band)|the Scottish ambient music band]] of the same name.
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* [[Cosmic Horror]]: The Dome is {{spoiler|a toy for spiritual alien kids, who are playing with us like we play with ants.}}
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: The hardcover cover art depicts a much ''smaller'' Dome than what is described in the novel. Not to mention the fact that the dome is actually invisible (the cover art shows a glassy, reflecting dome) and isn't even ''round'' (the cover art shows it to be neatly spherical).
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Chef dislikes being called by his real name, Phil.
* [[Doomed Hometown]]
* [[Doorstopper]]: The hardcover clocks in at about 1074 pages.
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* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Dale Barbara is in the midst of this as the story opens but the woman who's about to give him a ride out of town changes her mind and drives on at the last second. From then on, whenever he's in trouble he thinks of the woman and wonders what would have happened had she stopped for him.
* [[Remembered Too Late]]: Getting body armor for raiding a meth lab.
* [[Screaming Warrior]]:
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Carolyn Sturges thinks about what her career future would have been and she dismissed novelist as too risky. Why? "What if you wrote a thousand-pager, and it sucked?" Guess how many pages Under the Dome is.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The entire winding saga of {{spoiler|the VADER file.}}
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