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This is the way the planet ends: with a nanosecond of computer mistake in a Security Department laboratory and a million informal connections that form the links in a string letter of death. And here is the bleak " new world " of the day after: a global stripped of its organizations and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world when a handful of panicky survivors choose attributes - or are chosen. A world where good trips on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mom Abagail - and the most severe nightmares of bad are embodied in a guy with a lethal look and unspeakable capabilities: Randall Flagg, the dark man. In 1978 Stephen Ruler published The Stand, the book that is now regarded as one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a global blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental have difficulty between good and bad has been restored to its entirety. The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition includes more than 500 webpages of material recently removed, along with new materials that Ruler added as he reworked the manuscript for a fresh generation. It gives us new heroes and endows familiar ones with new depths. It offers a new start and a fresh ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a genuine epic. For thousands of fans who read or listened to The Stand in its original version and required more, this new release is Stephen King's product. And the ones who are reading The Stand for the very first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our success.
