Turns out that Michael Grant (co-creator and author of Animorphs) has been in touch with Stephen King lately, and has gotten him hooked onto Michael’s new series: ‘GONE’. Stephen King read the first book, as well as an advanced copy of the unreleased second book ‘Hunger’, and this is what he wrote about the series to Michael’s editor:
I’ve been corresponding with your “Michael Grant” about his Gone books. More important, I’ve been reading the Gone books–the first and Hunger, the follow-up. These are exciting, high-tension stories told in a driving, torrential narrative that never lets up. There are monsters, there are kids with mad-crazy super powers, there’s the mystery of where all the adults went. Most of all, there are children I can believe in and root for. This is great fiction.
If you want to quote any or all of that, be my guest. I love these books.
Stephen King
The quote was taken from Michael Grant’s SBN (StupidBlogName). The full article can be viewed here: http://stupidblogname.com.
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A very big congrats to Michael! I highly enjoyed ‘Gone’ myself, and am glad that the books were well received. The praise is well deserved.
Gone 2: Hunger is set to be released May 13th, 2009.
Also, for those that missed out on the first book, Gone is being re-released on paperback on April 28th, 2009
I find it interesting that Stephen King finds ‘GONE’ a good book. I mean it is, I have the whole series, but doesn’t Stephen King feel a little cheated? Stephen King wrote the book ‘Under the Dome’ which is when a small town called Chester’s Mill(Maine) gets cut off from the outside world with a weird dome. In the ‘GONE’ series the same dome pretty much. The only way the ‘GONE’ series is different is the age group which it’s for and the age of the characters and also in the ‘GONE’ series mutation happens, but if I was Stephen King I would feel a little cheated. Wouldn’t you?
Comment by Y.T. — July 3, 2011 @ 6:31 pm
Dome plotline aside, Michael Grant channels Stephen King better than any author I’ve ever read. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but literally, if you told me that Stephen King had actually written the Gone series I would have not been surprised.
Comment by DavidO — October 13, 2011 @ 3:01 pm
Quick check on Google will show that “Gone” was published before “Under the Dome”.
Comment by Denise — March 19, 2013 @ 3:04 am